Expression of cytosolic and membrane associated tissue transglutaminase in rat hepatic stellate cells and its upregulation during transdifferentiation to myofibroblasts in culture

Hepatology Research

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 140-145

  Schnabel, Claudia ^a,c   Sawitza, Iris ^a   Tag, Carmen G ^a   Lahme, Birgit ^a   Gressner, Axel M ^a   Breitkopf, Katja ^a,b  

^a Central Laboratory   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cross linking; Extracellular matrix; LTBP; TGF

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN GLUTAMINE GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL STIMULATION; CELL TYPE; COLLAGEN SYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSOL; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FIBROGENESIS; LIVER CELL; LIVER FIBROSIS; MYOFIBROBLAST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SEPARATION TECHNIQUE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STELLATE CELL; UPREGULATION;

EID: 1242272870     PISSN: 13866346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hepres.2003.11.004     Document Type: Article

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