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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2007 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Physiol Cell Physiol. 2006 Mar 29;291(3):C483–C489. doi: 10.1152/ajpcell.00097.2006

Figure 6. Contractile force and myosin light chain phosphorylation in vimentin-deficient muscle strips stimulated by KCl.

Figure 6

A, smooth muscle strips were contracted with 60 mM KCl before and after 2-day incubation without ODNs, or with vimentin sense or antisense. Mean active force in response to 60 mM KCl was quantitated as percent of KCl-induced force in each strip before incubation. Values are mean ± SE. Asterisk indicates significantly lower response as compared to muscles not treated with ODNs, or treated with sense ODNs (n = 6–7) (P < 0.05). B, myosin light chain phosphorylation in muscle strips incubated without ODNs, or with vimentin sense or antisense. Myosin light chain phosphorylation was measured in smooth muscle strips 5 min after stimulation with 60 mM KCl. Differences between antisense-treated, sense-treated and no ODNs-treated strips were not statistically significant. Values shown are mean ± SE (n = 4).