The importance of intermediate filaments in the adaptation of tissues to mechanical stress: Evidence from gene knockout studies

Biology of the Cell

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 85-97

  Galou, Maria ^a   Gao, Jie ^a   Humbert, Jeanne ^a   Mericskay, Mathias ^a   Li, Zhenlin ^a   Paulin, Denise ^a   Vicart, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

Cytoskeleton; Desmin; Intermediate filaments; Knockout; Stress

Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEIN; KERATIN; VIMENTIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; CELL CULTURE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL SHAPE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL VIABILITY; EPITHELIUM; FETUS; GENE; GENE DISRUPTION; GLIA CELL; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT; INTESTINE INJURY; LETHAL GENE; LIVER INJURY; MECHANICAL STRESS; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURKINJE CELL; REVIEW; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SMOOTH MUSCLE; WHITE MATTER;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030659119     PISSN: 02484900     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0248-4900(99)80068-9     Document Type: Review

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