Expression of growth factors by airway epithelial cells in a model of chronic asthma: Regulation and relationship to subepithelial fibrosis

Clinical and Experimental Allergy

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 567-575

  Kumar, R K ^a   Herbert, C ^a   Foster, P S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b Biology and Environment   (Australia)

Author keywords

Airway remodelling; Amphiregulin; IL 13; Transforming growth factor

Indexed keywords

AMPHIREGULIN; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; GROWTH FACTOR; INTERLEUKIN 13; OVALBUMIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; EOSINOPHIL; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG FIBROSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RESPIRATORY EPITHELIUM; SENSITIZATION; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ALLERGENS; ANIMALS; ASTHMA; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CHRONIC DISEASE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; GLYCOPROTEINS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; INTERLEUKIN-13; LIGANDS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; OVALBUMIN; RESPIRATORY MUCOSA; TRACHEA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1;

EID: 2042512329     PISSN: 09547894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2222.2004.1917.x     Document Type: Article

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