Transforming growth factor-β1-induced collagen production in cultures of cardiac fibroblasts is the result of the appearance of myofibroblasts

Methods and Findings in Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 333-344

  Lijnen, P ^a   Petrov, V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Collagen; Fibroblasts; Myofibroblast; Transforming growth factor 1

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; ACTIN; TGFB1 PROTEIN, RAT; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL TYPE; COLLAGEN SYNTHESIS; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FIBROBLAST; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; INCUBATION TIME; MALE; MYOFIBROBLAST; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; RAT; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; HEART MUSCLE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; TIME; WESTERN BLOTTING; WISTAR RAT;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; COLLAGEN; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FIBROBLASTS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MYOCARDIUM; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TIME FACTORS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1;

EID: 0036340125     PISSN: 03790355     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1358/mf.2002.24.6.693065     Document Type: Article

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