Myosin Light Chain Kinase Is Central to Smooth Muscle Contraction and Required for Gastrointestinal Motility in Mice

Gastroenterology

Volumn 135, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  He, Wei Qi ^a   Peng, Ya Jing ^a   Zhang, Wen Cheng ^a   Lv, Ning ^b   Tang, Jing ^a   Chen, Chen ^a   Zhang, Cheng Hai ^a   Gao, Song ^a   Chen, Hua Qun ^b   Zhi, Gang ^c   Feil, Robert ^d   Kamm, Kristine E ^e   Stull, James T ^e   Gao, Xiang ^a   Zhu, Min Sheng ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; CALCIUM ION; MYOSIN LIGHT CHAIN KINASE; POTASSIUM ION; TAMOXIFEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLADDER FUNCTION; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLOGY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; DNA FLANKING REGION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; EXON; FECES; FOOD INTAKE; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; GENE DELETION; HISTOLOGY; INTESTINAL DYSMOTILITY; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LIGHT CHAIN; LOXP SITE; MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERISTALSIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REGULATORY LIGHT CHAIN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMOOTH MUSCLE; SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTION;

EID: 48549089459     PISSN: 00165085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.gastro.2008.05.032     Document Type: Article

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