Role of Rho kinases in PKG-mediated relaxation of pulmonary arteries of fetal lambs exposed to chronic high altitude hypoxia

American Journal of Physiology - Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology

Volumn 292, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Gao, Yuansheng ^a,b,d   Portugal, Ada D ^a   Negash, Sewite ^a   Zhou, Weilin ^a   Longo, Lawrence D ^c   Raj, J Usha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Peking University Health Science Center   (China)

^c LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

cGMP; cGMP dependent protein kinase; Myosin light chain phosphatases; Rho kinase; Vascular smooth muscle

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC GMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; ENDOTHELIN 1; MYOSIN LIGHT CHAIN PHOSPHATASE; RHO KINASE; THREONINE;

ALTITUDE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; FEMALE; FETUS; HYPOXIA; LAMB; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY; VASODILATATION;

AMIDES; ANIMALS; ANOXIA; CYCLIC GMP; CYCLIC GMP-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASES; ENZYME INHIBITORS; FEMALE; FETUS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MALE; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; MYOSIN-LIGHT-CHAIN PHOSPHATASE; OXYGEN; PREGNANCY; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY CIRCULATION; PYRIDINES; RNA, MESSENGER; SHEEP; VASODILATION;

EID: 33847713292     PISSN: 10400605     EISSN: 15221504     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajplung.00178.2006     Document Type: Article

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