Smoothelin-A is essential for functional intestinal smooth muscle contractility in mice

Gastroenterology

Volumn 129, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1592-1601

  Niessen, Petra ^a   Rensen, Sander ^a   Van Deursen, Jan ^b   De Man, Joris ^c   De Laet, Ann ^c   Vanderwinden, Jean Marie ^d   Wedel, Thilo ^e   Baker, Darren ^b   Doevendans, Pieter ^f   Hofker, Marten ^a   Gijbels, Marion ^a   Van Eys, Guillaume ^a,g  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^f UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^g MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SMOOTHELIN; SMOOTHELIN A; SMOOTHELIN B; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIVERTICULOSIS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXON; GENE DELETION; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; INTESTINE CONTRACTION; INTESTINE MUSCLE; INTESTINE PSEUDOOBSTRUCTION; KNOCKOUT GENE; MOUSE; MUSCLE HYPERTROPHY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; WILD TYPE;

EID: 27744543634     PISSN: 00165085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.gastro.2005.08.018     Document Type: Article

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