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Impaired vascular contractility and blood pressure homeostasis in the smooth muscle alpha-actin null mouse.
FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology - 1 Nov 2000
Schildmeyer L A, Braun R, Taffet G, Debiasi M, Burns A E, Bradley A, Schwartz R J
Abstract excerpt
The smooth muscle (SM) alpha-actin gene activated during the early stages of embryonic cardiovascular development is switched off in late stage heart tissue and replaced by cardiac and skeletal alpha-actins. SM alpha-actin also appears during vascular development, but becomes the single most abundant protein in adult vascular smooth muscle cells. Tissue-specific expression of SM alpha-actin is thought to be...
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