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A New Contributor to Blood Vessel Constriction (1 of 1)

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A New Contributor to Blood Vessel Constriction (1 of 1)

image: Mice deficient in the RSK2 enzyme (bottom row) displayed lower blood pressure but no abnormalities in heart function compared to wild-type mice (top row). This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Oct. 30, 2018, issue of Science Signaling, published by AAAS. The paper, by M. Artamonov at University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA; and colleagues was titled, "RSK2 contributes to myogenic vasoconstriction of resistance arteries by activating smooth muscle myosin and the Na+/H+ exchanger," view more 

Credit: M. Artamonov<i> et al., Science Signaling</i> (2018)


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