Smad3 mediates the TGF-β-induced contraction of type I collagen gels by mouse embryo fibroblasts

Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 248-253

  Liu, Xiangde ^a   Wen, Fu Qiang ^a   Kobayashi, Tetsu ^a   Abe, Shinji ^a   Fang, Qiuhong ^a   Piek, Ester ^b,d   Bottinger, Erwin P ^c   Roberts, Anita B ^b   Rennard, Stephen I ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d NETHERLANDS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Knockout mice; Smad; Tissue remodeling

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN GEL; COLLAGEN TYPE 1; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR BB; RECOMBINANT TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; SMAD PROTEIN; SMAD2 PROTEIN; SMAD3 PROTEIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; FIBROBLAST; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; GENOTYPE; KNOCKOUT GENE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; COLLAGEN TYPE I; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EMBRYO; FIBROBLASTS; HYDROXYPROLINE; MICE; SMAD3 PROTEIN; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

EID: 0037369778     PISSN: 08861544     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cm.10098     Document Type: Article

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