Rho-kinase: important new therapeutic target in cardiovascular diseases.
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..., Fasudil) for cardiovascular diseases.(163) However, because Rho GTPase and ROCK are critical components in pathways that regulate fundamental cell functions, targeting them may have serious side effects....
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...Serpine1, Rock2, and b-catenin are related to VSM cell inflammation (Satoh et al., 2011; Vykoukal and Davies, 2011; Xiao et al., 2014) and their expression levels were validated in aortic protein extracts by western blotting (Figure 4B)....
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