Essential role of obscurin in cardiac myofibrillogenesis and hypertrophic response: Evidence from small interfering RNA-mediated gene silencing

Histochemistry and Cell Biology

Volumn 125, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 227-238

  Borisov, Andrei B ^a   Sutter, Sarah B ^a   Kontrogianni Konstantopoulos, Aikaterini ^b   Bloch, Robert J ^b   Westfall, Margaret V ^a   Russell, Mark W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Actinin; Cardiac myocytes; Hypertrophy; Myofibrillogenesis; Myosin; Obscurin; siRNA; Titin

Indexed keywords

ADENOVIRUS VECTOR; ALPHA ACTININ; CONNECTIN; MUSCLE PROTEIN; MYOSIN; OBSCURIN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DOWN REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HEART HYPERTROPHY; HEART MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE FIBRIL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; RNA INTERFERENCE; SARCOMERE;

ACTININ; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CARDIOMYOPATHY, HYPERTROPHIC; CELL ENLARGEMENT; CELLS, CULTURED; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTORS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MUSCLE PROTEINS; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; RATS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TRANSFECTION;

ADENOVIRIDAE; ANIMALIA;

EID: 32444435668     PISSN: 09486143     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00418-005-0069-x     Document Type: Article

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