Transforming growth factors-β1, -β2, and -β3 stimulate fibroblast procollagen production in vitro but are differentially expressed during bleomycin-induced lung fibrosis

American Journal of Pathology

Volumn 150, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 981-991

  Coker, Robina K ^a,c   Laurent, Geoffrey J ^a   Shahzeidi, Shahriar ^a   Lympany, Penny A ^b   Du Bois, Roland M ^b   Jeffery, Peter K ^b   McAnulty, Robin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL HEART AND LUNG INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLEOMYCIN; COLLAGEN; PROCOLLAGEN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA2; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA3;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COLLAGEN METABOLISM; COLLAGEN SYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FIBROBLAST; GENE EXPRESSION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LUNG FIBROSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA TRANSCRIPTION;

ANIMALS; BLEOMYCIN; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELLS, CULTURED; FIBROBLASTS; FIBROSIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; ISOMERISM; LATENT TGF-BETA BINDING PROTEINS; LUNG; MICE; PROCOLLAGEN; PULMONARY FIBROSIS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

EID: 0031059572     PISSN: 00029440     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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