Identification and initial functional characterization of a human vascular cell-enriched long noncoding RNA

Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1249-1259

  Bell, Robert D ^a   Long, Xiaochun ^a   Lin, Mingyan ^b   Bergmann, Jan H ^c   Nanda, Vivek ^a   Cowan, Sarah L ^a   Zhou, Qian ^a   Han, Yu ^a   Spector, David L ^c   Zheng, Deyou ^b   Miano, Joseph M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

Author keywords

cell migration; endothelial cells; myocytes, smooth muscle; RNA sequence; RNA, long noncoding

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; MYOCARDIN; RNA;

ARTICLE; CELL MIGRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA GENE; RNA SEQUENCE; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

CELL MIGRATION; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; MYOCYTES, SMOOTH MUSCLE; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA, LONG NONCODING;

CELLS, CULTURED; HUMANS; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; MYOCYTES, SMOOTH MUSCLE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEIN C-FLI-1; RNA, LONG NONCODING; RNA, MESSENGER; VASOCONSTRICTION;

EID: 84901504177     PISSN: 10795642     EISSN: 15244636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/ATVBAHA.114.303240     Document Type: Article

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