Smooth Muscle Cell Ca2+: Think Locally, Act Globally

Microcirculation

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 279-280

  Earley, Scott ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Ca2+; Smooth muscle cell; Vascular

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL; CALCIUM CHANNEL L TYPE; CALCIUM CHANNEL T TYPE; CALCIUM ION;

CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CELL FUNCTION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL PROLIFERATION; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; MICROVASCULATURE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MUSCLE CELL; PARENCHYMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TARGETING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; STORE OPERATED CALCIUM ENTRY; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE CELL;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CALCIUM CHANNELS, L-TYPE; CALCIUM CHANNELS, T-TYPE; CALCIUM SIGNALING; HUMANS; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; MYOCYTES, SMOOTH MUSCLE;

EID: 84877644044     PISSN: 10739688     EISSN: 15498719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/micc.12049     Document Type: Editorial

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