Diosgenin modulates vascular smooth muscle cell function by regulating cell viability, migration, and calcium homeostasis

Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics

Volumn 336, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 925-939

  Esfandiarei, Mitra ^a   Lam, Julia T N ^a   Yazdi, Sahar Abdoli ^a   Kariminia, Amina ^a   Dorado, Jorge Navarro ^a   Kuzeljevic, Boris ^b   Syyong, Harley T ^a   Hu, Kaiji ^a   Van Breemen, Cornelis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CASPASE 3; DIOSGENIN; LIPOCORTIN 5; NIFEDIPINE; PROTEIN KINASE B;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL CELL CULTURE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; AORTA; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CALCIUM HOMEOSTASIS; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CELL FUNCTION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL VIABILITY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG INHIBITION; DRUG POTENCY; MALE; MOUSE; MUSCLE FIBER CONTRACTION; MYOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; THORACIC AORTA; VASCULAR DISEASE; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE; VASOCONSTRICTION;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLS, CULTURED; DIOSGENIN; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; HOMEOSTASIS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; MYOCYTES, SMOOTH MUSCLE;

EID: 79951976363     PISSN: 00223565     EISSN: 15210103     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1124/jpet.110.172684     Document Type: Article

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