Transgenic mice expressing nerve growth factor in smooth muscle cells

NeuroReport

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 223-227

  Elliott, Janet ^a   MacLellan, Adam ^a   Saini, Jaswinder K ^b   Chan, Janice ^a   Scott, Samuel ^b   Kawaja, Michael D ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomic; Axon; Neurotrophin smooth muscle

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ACTIN; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERIOLE; ARTERY; ARTICLE; BLADDER; COLON; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFERENT NERVE; FEMALE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; SYMPATHETIC NERVE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; ARTERIES; COLON; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GROWTH CONES; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MYOCYTES, SMOOTH MUSCLE; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NEUROGENESIS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SYMPATHETIC FIBERS, POSTGANGLIONIC; UP-REGULATION; URINARY BLADDER;

EID: 62149138117     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNR.0b013e32831add70     Document Type: Article

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