Alveolar Type I Cells: Molecular Phenotype and Development

Annual Review of Physiology

Volumn 65, Issue , 2003, Pages 669-695

  Williams, Mary C ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Alveolar epithelium; Development; Molecular phenotype; Type I cells

Indexed keywords

AQUAPORIN 4; AQUAPORIN 5; BETA 2 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; CAVEOLIN 1; CELL PROTEIN; EOTAXIN; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE 1; LECTIN; LUNG ALVEOLUS CELL TYPE 1 ALPHA PROTEIN; MOLECULAR MARKER; SOMATOMEDIN B; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; AQUAPORIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CARBOXYPEPTIDASE M; CAVEOLIN; METALLOPROTEINASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CELL DAMAGE; CELL ISOLATION; CELL MATURATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL VIABILITY; DNA METHYLATION; DOWN REGULATION; ENDOCYTOSIS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GENE CONTROL; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HYDROPHOBICITY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOMODULATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LUNG ALVEOLUS CELL TYPE 1; LUNG ALVEOLUS CELL TYPE 2; LUNG DEVELOPMENT; LUNG FLUID; LUNG INJURY; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN GLYCOSYLATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; RIBONUCLEASE PROTECTION ASSAY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENETICS; LUNG ALVEOLUS; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; AQUAPORINS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CAVEOLIN 1; CAVEOLINS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE-1; METALLOENDOPEPTIDASES; PHENOTYPE; PULMONARY ALVEOLI;

EID: 0038041946     PISSN: 00664278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.physiol.65.092101.142446     Document Type: Review

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