Assessment of contractility of purified smooth muscle cells derived from embryonic stem cells

Stem Cells

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1678-1688

  Sinha, Sanjay ^a   Wamhoff, Brian R ^a   Hoofnagle, Mark H ^a   Thomas, James ^a   Neppl, Ronald L ^a   Deering, Thomas ^a   Helmke, Brian P ^a,b   Bowles, Douglas K ^b,c   Somlyo, Avril V ^a   Owens, Gary K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b University of Virginia   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Contraction; Embryoid body; Embryonic stem cell; Smooth muscle; Teratoma

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; CALCIUM CHANNEL; CELL MARKER; COLLAGEN GEL; ENDOTHELIN 1; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAIN; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; PUROMYCIN; ACTIN; CALCIUM; COLLAGEN; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENT;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CELL AGGREGATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL ISOLATION; CELL LINE; CELL POPULATION; CELL SELECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPOLARIZATION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IN VIVO STUDY; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; MUSCLE FIBER CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FORCE; NONHUMAN; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PROMOTER REGION; PURIFICATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; TERATOMA; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; CYTOLOGY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO INDUCTION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NEOPLASM; PHYSIOLOGY; STEM CELL; TRANSGENE;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CELLS, CULTURED; COLLAGEN; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC INDUCTION; GENETIC MARKERS; MICE; MORPHOGENESIS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MYOCYTES, SMOOTH MUSCLE; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAINS; NEOPLASMS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SELECTION (GENETICS); STEM CELLS; TRANSGENES; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENTS;

EID: 33749045508     PISSN: 10665099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1634/stemcells.2006-0002     Document Type: Article

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