Silencing MaxiK activity in corporal smooth muscle cells initiates compensatory mechanisms to maintain calcium homeostasis

Journal of Sexual Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2191-2204

  Calenda, Giulia ^a   Suadicani, Sylvia Ottilie ^a   Iglesias, Rodolfo ^a   Spray, David Conover ^a   Melman, Arnold ^a   Davies, Kelvin Paul ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Calcium Homeostasis; Erectile Tissue Physiology; MaxiK; Micro Array; SiRNA; Smooth Muscle

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL; IBERIOTOXIN; LARGE CONDUCTANCE CALCIUM ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CALCIUM HOMEOSTASIS; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPORAL SMOOTH MUSCLE CELL; CORPUS CAVERNOSUM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER;

EID: 79960847691     PISSN: 17436095     EISSN: 17436109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1743-6109.2010.02180.x     Document Type: Article

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