Transforming growth factor-β1 and -β2 positively regulate TGF-β1 mRNA expression in trabecular cells

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 37, Issue 13, 1996, Pages 2778-2782

  Li, Junping ^a   Tripathi, Brenda J ^a   Chalam, K V ^a   Tripathi, Ramesh C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

cell culture; gene expression; growth factor; laser densitometry; quantitative polymerase chain reaction

Indexed keywords

BASIC FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA2;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; DENSITOMETRY; DNA SYNTHESIS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GLAUCOMA; GROWTH INHIBITION; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWINE; TRABECULAR MESHWORK;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CULTURE MEDIA, SERUM-FREE; DNA PRIMERS; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SWINE; TRABECULAR MESHWORK; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

EID: 0030445799     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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