Function and regulation of large conductance Ca2+-activated K+ channel in vascular smooth muscle cells

Drug Discovery Today

Volumn 17, Issue 17-18, 2012, Pages 974-987

  Hu, Xiang Qun ^a   Zhang, Lubo ^a  

^a LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

1 (2 HYDROXY 5 TRIFLUOROMETHYLPHENYL) 5 TRIFLUOROMETHYL 2(3H) BENZIMIDAZOLONE; 1 (5 CHLORO 2 HYDROXYPHENYL) 5 TRIFLUOROMETHYL 2 BENZIMIDAZOLONE; 20 HYDROXYICOSATETRAENOIC ACID; ARACHIDONIC ACID; BETA 2 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; CARBON MONOXIDE; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE ANCHORING PROTEIN; ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; EPOXYICOSATRIENOIC ACID; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; HEME OXYGENASE; HEME OXYGENASE 2; HYPOXIA INDUCIBLE FACTOR 1; HYPOXIA INDUCIBLE FACTOR 1ALPHA; HYPOXIA INDUCIBLE FACTOR 1BETA; LARGE CONDUCTANCE CALCIUM ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL; LARGE CONDUCTANCE CALCIUM ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL ALPHA SUBUNIT; LARGE CONDUCTANCE CALCIUM ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL BETA SUBUNIT; LITHOCHOLIC ACID; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PROTEIN KINASE C; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE OXIDASE 1; THROMBOXANE A2 RECEPTOR;

AGING; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; BLOOD VESSEL TONE; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ENDURANCE TRAINING; EXERCISE; GENETIC MANIPULATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HYPERPOLARIZATION; HYPERTENSION; HYPOXIA; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LUNG CIRCULATION; MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NONHUMAN; OVARY CYCLE; OXIDATION REDUCTION STATE; PH; PREGNANCY; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SHOCK; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; SPONTANEOUS TRANSIENT OUTWARD CURRENT; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT; STOICHIOMETRY; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; UPREGULATION; UTERUS BLOOD FLOW; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE; VASOCONSTRICTION; VASODILATATION; ZUCKER DIABETIC FATTY RAT;

ANIMALS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; HUMANS; LARGE-CONDUCTANCE CALCIUM-ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNELS; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; MYOCYTES, SMOOTH MUSCLE;

EID: 84865483621     PISSN: 13596446     EISSN: 18785832     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.drudis.2012.04.002     Document Type: Review

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