Activation of a fibroblast-specific enhancer of the proα2(I) collagen gene in tight-skin mice

Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 712-722

  Denton, Christopher P ^a,b,c   Zheng, Bing ^a,b,c   Shiwen, Xu ^a,b,c   Zhang, Zhaoping ^a,b,c   Bou Gharios, George ^a,b,c   Eberspaecher, Heidi ^a,b,c   Black, Carol M ^a,b,c   De Crombrugghe, Benoit ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; COLLAGEN TYPE 2; CYTOKINE; PROCOLLAGEN; PROCOLLAGEN ALPHA2; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FIBROBLAST; FIBROSIS; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE; SCLERODERMA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); FIBROBLASTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PROCOLLAGEN; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC;

EID: 0035076489     PISSN: 00043591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1529-0131(200103)44:3<712::AID-ANR121>3.0.CO;2-1     Document Type: Article

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