Vascular smooth muscle emilin-1 is a regulator of arteriolar myogenic response and blood pressure

Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2178-2184

  Litteri, Gaia ^a   Carnevale, Daniela ^b,c   D'Urso, Alessandra ^a   Cifelli, Giuseppe ^b   Braghetta, Paola ^a   Damato, Antonio ^b   Bizzotto, Dario ^a   Landolfi, Alessandro ^b   Da Ros, Francesco ^a   Sabatelli, Patrizia ^d   Facchinello, Nicola ^a   Maffei, Angelo ^b   Volpin, Dino ^a   Colombatti, Alfonso ^e   Bressan, Giorgio M ^a   Lembo, Giuseppe ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b IRCCS NEUROMED   (Italy)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^d RIZZOLI ORTHOPAEDIC INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^e CENTRO DI RIFERIMENTO ONCOLOGICO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Emilin1; myogenic response; systemic hypertension; transforming growth factor; vascular smooth muscle

Indexed keywords

EMILIN 1; REGULATOR PROTEIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTERIOLE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; HYPERTENSION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERFUSION PRESSURE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE; VASOCONSTRICTION;

EID: 84865471442     PISSN: 10795642     EISSN: 15244636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/ATVBAHA.112.254664     Document Type: Article

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