Spontaneously tonic smooth muscle has characteristically higher levels of RhoA/ROK compared with the phasic smooth muscle

American Journal of Physiology - Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology

Volumn 291, Issue 5, 2006, Pages

  Patel, Chirag A ^a   Rattan, Satish ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Catalytic subunit of myosin light chain phosphatase; Endogenous inhibitory protein of PPIC ; Internal anal sphincter; Regulatory targeting subunit of myosin light chain phosphatase; Spontaneous tone

Indexed keywords

4 (1 AMINOETHYL) N (4 PYRIDYL)CYCLOHEXANECARBOXAMIDE; ISOPROTEIN; MYOSIN LIGHT CHAIN; PROTEIN CPI 17; PROTEIN MYPT1; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; RHO KINASE; RHOA GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANOCOCCYGEUS MUSCLE; ANUS SPHINCTER; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MECHANISM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; MALE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHASIC SMOOTH MUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RAT; RECTUM; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SMOOTH MUSCLE; SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTION; TONIC SMOOTH MUSCLE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AMIDES; ANIMALS; CARRIER PROTEINS; ENZYME INHIBITORS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE PROTEINS; MUSCLE TONUS; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PYRIDINES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA;

EID: 33751172972     PISSN: 01931857     EISSN: 15221547     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpgi.00130.2006     Document Type: Article

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