Potential role of MCP-1 in endothelial cell tight junction 'opening': Signaling via Rho and Rho kinase

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 116, Issue 22, 2003, Pages 4615-4628

  Stamatovic, Svetlana M ^a   Keep, Richard F ^a   Kunkel, Steven L ^a   Andjelkovic, Anuska V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain endothelial permeability; MCP 1; Rho kinase; RhoA; Tight junction

Indexed keywords

4 (1 AMINOETHYL) N (4 PYRIDYL)CYCLOHEXANECARBOXAMIDE; ACTIN; CARBON 14; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CCR2; CLAUDIN; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE ACTIVATING PROTEIN; INULIN; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1; MUTANT PROTEIN; OCCLUDIN; PROTEIN KINASE INHIBITOR; PROTEIN ZO1; RHO FACTOR; RHO KINASE; TRITON X 100;

ANIMAL CELL; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN CELL; CELL CULTURE; CELL FRACTIONATION; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; CELL MEMBRANE RESISTANCE; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ENZYME INHIBITION; GENOTYPE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRESS FIBER; TIGHT JUNCTION;

ACUTE-PHASE PROTEINS; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CELLS, CULTURED; CHEMOKINE CCL2; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; INULIN; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MUTATION; OCTOXYNOL; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PERMEABILITY; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RECEPTORS, CHEMOKINE; STRESS FIBERS; TIGHT JUNCTIONS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0344465840     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jcs.00755     Document Type: Review

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