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The JNK pathway is involved in apoptosis [ 13 ] , arginine vasopressin-induced increases in smooth muscle α-actin in vascular smooth muscle cells [ 14 ] as well as in phosphorylation of transcription factors c-jun, ATF-2 and ELK-1 and phosphorylation of Na-K-2CI cotransporter [ 15 ] . The p38 pathway has been implicated in apoptosis [ 16 ] , neointimal hyperplasia after vascular injury [ 17 ] as well as angiotensin ll-induced contraction in vascular smooth muscle [ 18 ] .
In addition, an antibody against α-actin (Enzo Diagnostics, Inc, Farmingdale, NY) was used to confirm SMCs in the media.
Insulin did not decrease human α-actin gene transcription at any time point.
In our previous studies, we have shown that insulin inhibits the rate of SP-A gene transcription after a 24-hour exposure [ 7 ] . In this study, we evaluated the effects of insulin on the transcription rate of the human SP-A and α-actin genes at several time-points earlier than those used in our previous studies.
Nytran membranes with immobilized cDNAs for the BlueScript vector, human SP-A and human α-actin were prehybridized in 1 ml of buffer (50% formamide, 5 X SSC, 5 X Denhardt's solution, 100 μg/ml denatured herring sperm, 0.1% SDS) for 4 hours at 45°C and then hybridized to the labeled RNAs (6 × 10 6cpm in the presence of 500 units of RNasin) in duplicate for an additional 60 hours.