Smooth Muscle-Alpha Actin Inhibits Vascular Smooth Muscle Cell Proliferation and Migration by Inhibiting Rac1 Activity

• Lihua Chen,

  Affiliation Department of Surgery and Center for Cardiovascular Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States of America

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• Allison DeWispelaere,

  Affiliation Department of Surgery and Center for Cardiovascular Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States of America

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• Frank Dastvan,

  Affiliation Department of Surgery and Center for Cardiovascular Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States of America

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• William R. A. Osborne,

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics and Diabetes and Obesity Center of Excellence at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States of America

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• Christine Blechner,

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Signal Transduction, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany

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• Sabine Windhorst,

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Signal Transduction, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany

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• Guenter Daum

  * E-mail: g.daum@uke.de

  Current address: Clinic and Polyclinic for Vascular Medicine, University Heart Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany

  Affiliation Department of Surgery and Center for Cardiovascular Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States of America

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