An α-smooth muscle actin (acta2/αsma) zebrafish transgenic line marking vascular mural cells and visceral smooth muscle cells

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Whitesell, Thomas R ^a   Kennedy, Regan M ^a   Carter, Alyson D ^a   Rollins, Evvi Lynn ^a   Georgijevic, Sonja ^a   Santoro, Massimo M ^b   Childs, Sarah J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSGELIN;

ACTA2 GENE; ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL; CELL MATURATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; EMBRYO; ENHANCER REGION; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; IN VIVO STUDY; INTRON; LARVAL STAGE; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PERICYTE; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; TIME-LAPSE VIDEO MICROSCOPY; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VASCULAR MURAL CELL; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE; VISCERAL SMOOTH MUSCLE CELL; ZEBRA FISH;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; MYOCYTES, SMOOTH MUSCLE; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 84897008454     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0090590     Document Type: Article

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