Smooth muscle-targeted knockout of connexin43 enhances neointimal formation in response to vascular injury

Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1037-1042

  Liao, Yongbo ^a   Regan, Christopher P ^c   Manabe, Ichiro ^d   Owens, Gary K ^a   Day, Kathy H ^b   Damon, Dave N ^a   Duling, Brian R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adventitia; Atherosclerosis; Smooth muscle; Thrombus

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 43;

ADVENTITIA; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CAROTID ARTERY INJURY; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART RATE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER;

ANIMALS; CAROTID ARTERY INJURIES; CAROTID ARTERY, COMMON; CELLS, CULTURED; CONNEXIN 43; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; RNA; TUNICA INTIMA;

EID: 34247375905     PISSN: 10795642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/ATVBAHA.106.137182     Document Type: Article

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