TRPC channels in smooth muscle cells

Frontiers in Bioscience

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1023-1039

  Gonzalez Cobos, Jose C ^a   Trebak, Mohamed ^a  

^a ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Calcium channels; Hypertension; Proliferation; Review; Smooth muscle; Transient receptor potential canonical; Vascular disease; Vascular remodeling

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; ISOPROTEIN; TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL CHANNEL C; TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL CHANNEL RELATED PROTEIN 1; TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL CHANNEL-RELATED PROTEIN 1;

CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UTERUS; VASCULAR DISEASE; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

CALCIUM; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMANS; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRPC CATION CHANNELS; UTERUS; VASCULAR DISEASES;

EID: 77956645285     PISSN: 27686701     EISSN: 27686698     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2741/3660     Document Type: Review

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