Article
Impaired vascular remodeling in the yolk sac of embryos deficient in ROCK-I and ROCK-II.
Genes to cells : devoted to molecular & cellular mechanisms - 1 Oct 2011
Kamijo Hiroshi, Matsumura Yutaka, Thumkeo Dean, Koike Seiichi, Masu Masayuki, Shimizu Yoshihiko, Ishizaki Toshimasa, Narumiya Shuh
Abstract excerpt
Rho-associated coiled-coil-forming protein serine/threonine kinase (ROCK) consisting of two isoforms, ROCK-I and ROCK-II, functions downstream of the small GTPase Rho for assembly of actomyosin bundles. To examine the role of ROCK isoforms in vivo, we previously generated and examined mice deficient in each of the two isoforms individually. Here, we further examined the in vivo role of ROCK isoforms by generating...
Topics
- Animals
- Female
- Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental
- Genotype
- Male
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Knockout
- Morphogenesis
- Mutation
- Neovascularization, Pathologic
- Phenotype
- Yolk Sac
- rho-Associated Kinases
