Decreased expression of α2β1 integrin in scleroderma fibroblasts

Experimental Dermatology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 57-63

  Kozlowska, Ewa ^a   Sollberg, Stephan ^a   Mauch, Cornelia ^a   Eckes, Beate ^a   Klein, C Eberhard ^b   Krieg, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

2 1; Cell matrix interactions; Collagen synthesis; Integrin expression; Scleroderma fibroblasts

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; COLLAGEN RECEPTOR; INTEGRIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; SCLERODERMA;

CELLS, CULTURED; COLLAGEN; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FIBROBLASTS; FIBROSIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; INTEGRINS; RECEPTORS, COLLAGEN; RNA, MESSENGER; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC; SKIN;

EID: 0030034563     PISSN: 09066705     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0625.1996.tb00094.x     Document Type: Article

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