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ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus
SUBMITTER: Carsten Sticht
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-60447 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Ghosh Subhajit S Kollar Branislav B Nahar Taslima T Suresh Babu Sahana S Wojtowicz Agnieszka A Sticht Carsten C Gretz Norbert N Wagner Andreas H AH Korff Thomas T Hecker Markus M
Journal of the American Heart Association 20150612 6
<h4>Background</h4>Exposure of vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) to excessive cyclic stretch such as in hypertension causes a shift in their phenotype. The focal adhesion protein zyxin can transduce such biomechanical stimuli to the nucleus of both endothelial cells and VSMCs, albeit with different thresholds and kinetics. However, there is no distinct vascular phenotype in young zyxin-deficient mice, possibly due to functional redundancy among other gene products belonging to the zyxin famil ...[more]