Angiotensin II Stimulates System y+ and Cationic Amino Acid Transporter Gene Expression in Cultured Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells
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Cationic amino acid transporter gene expression in cultured vascular smooth muscle cells and in rats.
Immunostimulants trigger vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMC) to express the inducible isoform of NO synthase (iNOS) and increased arginine transport activity. Although arginine transport in VSMC is considered to be mediated via the y+ system, we show here that rat VSMC in culture express the cat-1 gene transcript as well as an alternatively spliced transcript of the cat-2 gene. An RT-PCR clonin...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Biological Chemistry
سال: 1995
ISSN: 0021-9258
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.270.46.27577