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Serum response factor neutralizes Purα- and Purβ-mediated repression of the fetal vascular smooth muscle α-actin gene in stressed adult cardiomyocytes
1 Mar 2008
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Mouse hearts subjected to repeated transplant surgery and ischemia-reperfusion injury develop substantial interstitial and perivascular fibrosis that was spatially associated with dysfunctional activation of fetal smooth muscle alpha-actin (SM alpha A) gene expression in graft ventricular cardiomyocytes. Compared with cardiac fibroblasts in which nuclear levels of the Sp1 and Smad 2/3 transcriptional-activating...
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