Expression of isoforms and splice variants of the latent transforming growth factor β binding protein (LTBP) in cultured human liver myofibroblasts

Liver

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 105-113

  Mangasser Stephan, Kerstin ^a   Gartung, Carsten ^b   Lahme, Birgit ^a   Gressner, Axel M ^a,b  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Isoforms; LTBP; Splice variants; TGF

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; COLLAGEN TYPE 1; FIBRONECTIN; ISOPROTEIN; PROTEIN ANTIBODY; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL LABELING; CELL METABOLISM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FIBROBLAST CULTURE; FIBROGENESIS; GEL PERMEATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; LATENT PERIOD; LIVER; LIVER FIBROSIS; MODULATION; MYOFIBROBLAST; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STAINING; STELLATE CELL; STORAGE;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELLS, CULTURED; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GEL; COLLAGEN; CULTURE MEDIA, CONDITIONED; DNA PRIMERS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FIBROBLASTS; FIBRONECTINS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; HUMANS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; LATENT TGF-BETA BINDING PROTEINS; LIVER; PRECIPITIN TESTS; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

EID: 0035035514     PISSN: 01069543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0676.2001.021002105.x     Document Type: Article

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