Molecular mechanisms of antifibrotic effect of interferon gamma in bleomycin-mouse model of lung fibrosis: Downregulation of TGF-β and procollagen I and III gene expression

Experimental Lung Research

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 1995, Pages 791-808

  Gurujeyalakshmi, G ^a   Giri, S N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Antifibrotic; Bleomycin; Gene expression; Interferon gamma; Lung fibrosis; Procollagen I, III; TGF

Indexed keywords

BLEOMYCIN; GAMMA INTERFERON; PROCOLLAGEN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; COLLAGEN SYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITOMETRY; DRUG EFFECT; GENE EXPRESSION; HYBRIDIZATION; LUNG ALVEOLUS CELL; LUNG FIBROSIS; MOLECULAR MODEL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONTENT; RECEPTOR DOWN REGULATION;

ANIMAL; BLEOMYCIN; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOWN-REGULATION; HYDROXYPROLINE; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LUNG; MALE; MICE; PROCOLLAGEN; PULMONARY FIBROSIS; RNA, MESSENGER; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

EID: 0029124143     PISSN: 01902148     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/01902149509050842     Document Type: Article

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