Proliferation of neonatal cardiomyocytes by connexin43 knockdown via synergistic inactivation of p38 MAPK and increased expression of FGF1

Basic Research in Cardiology

Volumn 104, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 631-642

  Matsuyama, Daisuke ^a   Kawahara, Koichi ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cell cycle reentry; Connexin43; FGF1; p38 MAPK; Proliferation

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 43; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE P38; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE P38 INHIBITOR; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSOLIC FRACTION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME REPRESSION; GAP JUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE CELL; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RAT;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CONNEXIN 43; ENZYME INHIBITORS; FETUS; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 1; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; P38 MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

EID: 70349652242     PISSN: 03008428     EISSN: 14351803     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00395-009-0029-z     Document Type: Article

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