The complement-activating protease P100 is expressed by hepatocytes and is induced by IL-6 in vitro and during the acute phase reaction in vivo

Laboratory Investigation

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 221-230

  Knittel, Thomas ^a   Fellmer, Peter ^a   Neubauer, Katrin ^a   Kawakami, Masaya ^b   Grundmann, Anka ^a   Ramadori, Giuliano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b KITASATO INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; COMPLEMENT; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DEXAMETHASONE; INTERLEUKIN 6; LECTIN; MESSENGER RNA; SERINE PROTEINASE;

ACUTE PHASE RESPONSE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COMPLEMENT ACTIVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; HEPATOMA CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; KUPFFER CELL; LIVER CELL; LIVER SINUSOID; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; STEADY STATE; STELLATE CELL;

ACUTE-PHASE REACTION; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELLS, CULTURED; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COMPLEMENT ACTIVATION; DEXAMETHASONE; ENZYME INDUCTION; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; INTERLEUKIN-6; LIVER; MANNOSE-BINDING PROTEIN-ASSOCIATED SERINE PROTEASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RNA, MESSENGER; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0030794868     PISSN: 00236837     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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