Lysophosphatidic acid enhances collagen gel contraction by hepatic stellate cells: Association with Rho-kinase

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 277, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 72-78

  Yanase, Mikio ^a   Ikeda, Hitoshi ^a   Matsui, Atsushi ^b   Maekawa, Hisato ^a   Noiri, Eisei ^a   Tomiya, Tomoaki ^a   Arai, Masahiro ^a   Yano, Takeo ^c   Shibata, Masao ^c   Ikebe, Mitsuo ^d   Fujiwara, Kenji ^b   Rojkind, Marcos ^e   Ogata, Itsuro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b SAITAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Medical & Biological Laboratories Co Ltd   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Actomyosin interaction; Collagen gel contraction; Electric cell substrate imedance sensor; Focal adhesion; Hepatic stellate cells; Lysoposphatidic acid; Rho kinase

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; COLLAGEN GEL; FIBRONECTIN; FOCAL ADHESION KINASE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; LYSOPHOSPHATIDIC ACID; MYOSIN LIGHT CHAIN; RHO KINASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMPEDANCE; LIVER CELL; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RAT; STELLATE CELL; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0034649122     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.2000.3634     Document Type: Article

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