Axl modulates immune activation of smooth muscle cells in vein graft remodeling

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 309, Issue 6, 2015, Pages H1048-H1058

  Batchu, Sri N ^a   Xia, Jixiang ^a   Ko, Kyung Ae ^a   Doyley, Marvin M ^b   Abe, Jun Ichi ^c   Morrell, Craig N ^a   Korshunov, Vyacheslav A ^a  

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

^b University of Rochester   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Axl; Inflammation; Smooth muscle cell; Vascular remodeling

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN AX1; PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; STAT1 PROTEIN; SUPPRESSOR OF CYTOKINE SIGNALING 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; AXL RECEPTOR TYROSINE KINASE; ONCOPROTEIN; SOCS1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; STAT1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; SUPPRESSOR OF CYTOKINE SIGNALING; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTERY INTIMA; ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; ARTICLE; CELL ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; IMAGING; IMMUNOMODULATION; IMMUNOREGULATION; INFLAMMATION; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; ULTRASOUND; VASCULAR REMODELING; VEIN GRAFT; ANIMAL; AORTA; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; CAROTID ARTERY; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; INTIMA; METABOLISM; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SURGERY; TRANSPLANTATION; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

ANIMALS; AORTA; APOPTOSIS; CAROTID ARTERIES; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; MYOCYTES, SMOOTH MUSCLE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STAT1 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; SUPPRESSOR OF CYTOKINE SIGNALING PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTOME; TUNICA INTIMA; VASCULAR REMODELING; VASCULAR STIFFNESS; VENA CAVA, INFERIOR;

EID: 84941696062     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: 15221539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00495.2015     Document Type: Article

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