ROS-dependent signaling mechanisms for hypoxic Ca2+ responses in pulmonary artery myocytes

Antioxidants and Redox Signaling

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 611-623

  Wang, Yong Xiao ^a   Zheng, Yun Min ^a  

^a ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CALCIUM CHANNEL; PROTEIN KINASE C EPSILON; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE OXIDASE; RYANODINE RECEPTOR; STORE OPERATED CALCIUM CHANNEL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VOLTAGE GATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; EXTRACELLULAR CALCIUM; HYPOXIA; LUNG PERFUSION; LUNG VASOCONSTRICTION; LUNG VENTILATION; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; RESPIRATORY CHAIN; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER;

ANIMALS; ANOXIA; CALCIUM; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ION CHANNELS; MITOCHONDRIA; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; MYOCYTES, SMOOTH MUSCLE; NADPH OXIDASE; PROTEIN KINASE C-EPSILON; PULMONARY ARTERY; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 76249088729     PISSN: 15230864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ars.2009.2877     Document Type: Review

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