Hypoxia-induced upregulation of endothelial small G protein RhoA and Rho-kinase/ROCK2 inhibits eNOS expression
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Acknowledgement
This work was supported by grants-in-aid for the Encouragement of Young Scientists (2005, 2006) and for Scientific Research (2005, 2006) from the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology. We thank Mrs. Y. Furuno and M. Sasanishi for technical assistance and Dr. C.J. Hurt for manuscript corrections.
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