Dexamethasone-induced prenatal alveolar wall thinning is associated with a decrease in EIIIA+ fibronectin isoform in the fetal rat lung

Biology of the Neonate

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 113-120

  Arai, Hirokazu ^a   Kikuchi, Wataru ^a   Ishida, Akira ^a   Takada, Goro ^a  

^a AKITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dexamethasone; Extracellular matrix; Fibronectin; Lung development; Proliferating cell nuclear antigen

Indexed keywords

CYCLINE; DEXAMETHASONE; FIBRONECTIN; ISOPROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; SURFACTANT PROTEIN B;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS LUNG MATURATION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HORMONAL REGULATION; LUNG ALVEOLUS CELL; LUNG ALVEOLUS WALL; LUNG DEVELOPMENT; LUNG WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CELL DIVISION; DEXAMETHASONE; FEMALE; FIBRONECTINS; GENE EXPRESSION; GESTATIONAL AGE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG; ORGAN SIZE; PREGNANCY; PROLIFERATING CELL NUCLEAR ANTIGEN; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; PULMONARY ALVEOLI; PULMONARY SURFACTANT-ASSOCIATED PROTEIN B; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 14044263490     PISSN: 00063126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000082119     Document Type: Article

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