Vascular smooth muscle cell smad4 gene is important for mouse vascular development

Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2171-2177

  Mao, Xia ^a   Debenedittis, Paige ^b   Sun, Yong ^a   Chen, Jianfeng ^a   Yuan, Kaiyu ^a   Jiao, Kai ^b   Chen, Yabing ^a,c  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^c BIRMINGHAM VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

migration; proliferation; Smad4; vascular smooth muscle cells; vasculature development

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; CRE RECOMBINASE; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAIN; SMAD4 PROTEIN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TRANSGELIN;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SPREADING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; LETHALITY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

ACTIN CYTOSKELETON; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; ARTERIES; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEINS; CELL ADHESION; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLS, CULTURED; EMBRYO LOSS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENETIC MARKERS; GENOTYPE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART; INTEGRASES; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MUSCLE PROTEINS; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; MYOCYTES, SMOOTH MUSCLE; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAINS; PHENOTYPE; RNA INTERFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMAD2 PROTEIN; SMAD3 PROTEIN; SMAD4 PROTEIN; SMOOTH MUSCLE MYOSINS; TRANSFECTION; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

EID: 84865475234     PISSN: 10795642     EISSN: 15244636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/ATVBAHA.112.253872     Document Type: Article

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