Maximal stimulation-induced in situ myosin light chain kinase activity is upregulated in fetal compared with adult ovine carotid arteries

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 295, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Injeti, Elisha R ^a   Sandoval, Renan J ^a   Williams, James M ^a   Smolensky, Alexander V ^b   Ford, Lincoln E ^b   Pearce, William J ^a  

^a LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Myofilament calcium sensitivity; Postnatal maturation; Regulatory myosin light chain; Thick filament reactivity

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CALMODULIN; MYOSIN LIGHT CHAIN; MYOSIN LIGHT CHAIN KINASE; MYOSIN LIGHT CHAIN PHOSPHATASE;

AGING; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; CAROTID ARTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME REGULATION; FEMALE; FETUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SHEEP;

AGE FACTORS; AGING; ANIMALS; AZEPINES; CALMODULIN; CAROTID ARTERY, COMMON; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENZYME INHIBITORS; FETUS; MYOSIN LIGHT CHAINS; MYOSIN-LIGHT-CHAIN KINASE; MYOSIN-LIGHT-CHAIN PHOSPHATASE; NAPHTHALENES; OXAZOLES; PHOSPHORYLATION; SHEEP; TIME FACTORS; UP-REGULATION; VASOCONSTRICTION;

EID: 57349130559     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: 15221539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00606.2008     Document Type: Article

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