Vascular smooth muscle contractile elements. Cellular regulation.
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Vascular smooth muscle contractile elements. Cellular regulation.
For many years the simple view was held that contractile force in smooth muscle was proportional to cytosolic Ca2+ concentrations ([Ca2+]i). With the discovery that phosphorylation of myosin light chain by Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent myosin light chain kinase initiated contraction, regulation of the contractile elements developed more complex properties. Molecular and biochemical investigations h...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Hypertension
سال: 1991
ISSN: 0194-911X,1524-4563
DOI: 10.1161/01.hyp.17.6.723