SM22α Modulates Vascular Smooth Muscle Cell Phenotype during Atherogenesis

Circulation Research

Volumn 94, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 863-865

  Feil, Susanne ^a   Hofmann, Franz ^a   Feil, Robert ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cre recombinase; Fate mapping; Mouse; Phenotypic modulation; Vascular remodeling

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E; CRE RECOMBINASE; PROTEIN; PROTEIN LOX; PROTEIN P27; PROTEIN SM22ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ACTIN BINDING PROTEIN; MUSCLE PROTEIN; SM 22 MUSCLE PROTEIN; TAGLN PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATHEROGENESIS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CELL FATE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE MAPPING; GENE TARGETING; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; VASCULAR DISEASE; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE; ANIMAL; AORTA DISEASE; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CELL DIVISION; CELL LINEAGE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; HYPERLIPOPROTEINEMIA TYPE 2; METABOLISM; MOUSE MUTANT; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPORTER GENE; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; AORTIC DISEASES; APOLIPOPROTEINS E; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CELL DIVISION; CELL LINEAGE; GENES, REPORTER; HYPERLIPOPROTEINEMIA TYPE II; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MUSCLE PROTEINS; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; MYOCYTES, SMOOTH MUSCLE; PHENOTYPE; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 1842830455     PISSN: 00097330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.RES.0000126417.38728.F6     Document Type: Article

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