Connective tissue growth factor mRNA expression is upregulated in bleomycin-induced lung fibrosis

American Journal of Physiology - Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology

Volumn 275, Issue 2 19-2, 1998, Pages

  Lasky, Josepha ^a,c,e   Ortiz, Luis A ^a,c   Tonthat, Boihoang ^a,c   Hoyle, Gary W ^a,c   Corti, Miriam ^b,c   Athas, Grace ^b,c   Lungarella, Giuseppe ^d   Brody, Arnold ^b,d   Friedman, Mitchell ^a,c  

^a Department of Medicine

^b Dept Pathol Environ Hlth Sci ^*

^c TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^e TULANE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Collagen; Mice; Transforming growth factor 1

Indexed keywords

BLEOMYCIN; GROWTH FACTOR; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FIBROGENESIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LUNG FIBROBLAST; LUNG FIBROSIS; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RAT; SCLERODERMA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SKIN FIBROBLAST; SKIN FIBROSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0031845816     PISSN: 10400605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajplung.1998.275.2.l365     Document Type: Article

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