Table 2.

Detection of TRPC in smooth muscle of various tissues

Tissue	TRPC1a	TRPC2	TRPC3	TRPC4a	TRPC5a	TRPC6	TRPC7	References
Aorta	+	+	+	+	+	+		Facemire et al., 2004
A7r5	+			+		+		Brueggemann et al., 2006
Rat mesentery artery	+			+		+		Brueggemann et al., 2006
Rat renal resistance artery	+		+	+	+	+		Facemire et al., 2004
Rat intralobar pulmonary arteries	+		+			+		Lin et al., 2004
Rat cerebral arteries	+		+	+	+	+		Flemming et al., 2003
Rabbit portal vein myocyte						+		Albert and Large, 2003
Human lower oesophageal sphinctor smooth muscle	+		+	+	+	+		Wang et al., 2003
Human coronary & cerebral artery	+		+	+	+	+		Yip et al., 2004
Human pulmonary artery	+							Golovina et al., 2001
Human internal mammary artery	+					+		Bergdahl et al., 2005
Pig trachea smooth muscle			+	+		+		Ay et al., 2004
Murine & canine smooth muscle				+		+	+	Walker et al., 2001
Rat prostate smooth muscle cell line			+			+		Thebault et al., 2005
Lamb fetal pulmonary smooth muscle cells	+		+		+	+		Resnik et al., 2007

Abbreviation: TRPC, transient receptor potential family.

Remark: ‘+'-expression.

Empty cells refers to ‘particular TRPC is not expressed in the tissue'.

^aIndicates that particular TRPC may involve SOCC activity. TRPC2 is a pseudogene in man.