Fibrogenic cytokines and extent of fibrosis in muscle of dogs with X-linked golden retriever muscular dystrophy

Neuromuscular Disorders

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 828-835

  Passerini, Laura ^a   Bernasconi, Pia ^a   Baggi, Fulvio ^a   Confalonieri, Paolo ^a   Cozzi, Francesca ^a   Cornelio, Ferdinando ^a   Mantegazza, Renato ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF NEUROSURGERY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Connective tissue growth factor; Duchenne muscular dystrophy; Extracellular matrix; Golden retriever muscular dystrophy; Transforming growth factor 1

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; CONNECTIVE TISSUE GROWTH FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; DUCHENNE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MUSCLE BIOPSY; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; COLLAGEN; CYTOKINES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOGS; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; GENETIC DISEASES, X-LINKED; IMMEDIATE-EARLY PROTEINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MALE; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY, DUCHENNE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1;

EID: 0036837421     PISSN: 09608966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-8966(02)00071-8     Document Type: Article

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