Tryptase increases proliferative activity of human conjunctival fibroblasts through protease-activated receptor-2

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 46, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 4622-4626

  Asano Kato, Naoko ^a,b   Fukagawa, Kazumi ^a,b   Okada, Naoko ^a,b   Dogru, Murat ^a,b   Tsubota, Kazuo ^a   Fujishima, Hiroshi ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO DENTAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZAMIDINE; LEUPEPTIN; PROTEINASE ACTIVATED RECEPTOR 2; SERYLLEUCYLISOLEUCYLGLYCYLLYSYLVALINE; TRYPTASE; TRYPTASE INHIBITOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BENZAMIDINE DERIVATIVE; MESSENGER RNA; OLIGOPEPTIDE; SERINE PROTEINASE; SERINE PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; SERYL LEUCYL ISOLEUCYL GLYCYL LYSYL VALINE; SERYL-LEUCYL-ISOLEUCYL--GLYCYL-LYSYL-VALINE;

ALLERGIC CONJUNCTIVITIS; ARTICLE; BRONCHITIS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONJUNCTIVA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FIBROBLAST; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INFLAMMATION; MAST CELL; MAST CELL DEGRANULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VERNAL CONJUNCTIVITIS; WESTERN BLOTTING; WOUND HEALING; CELL CULTURE; CYTOLOGY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; KERATOCONJUNCTIVITIS; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; UPREGULATION;

BENZAMIDINES; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CONJUNCTIVA; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FIBROBLASTS; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; KERATOCONJUNCTIVITIS; LEUPEPTINS; MAST CELLS; OLIGOPEPTIDES; RECEPTOR, PAR-2; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; SERINE PROTEINASE INHIBITORS; TRYPTASES; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 33644789269     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.05-0388     Document Type: Article

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