Requirement for glutamine in the expression of alpha-actin and type IV collagen in mesangial cells

Cell Biochemistry and Function

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 217-221

  Pithon Curi, Tania Cristina ^a,c   Sellitti, Donald F ^b   Curi, Rui ^c   Machado, Marcos M ^b   Hirszel, Przemyslaw ^b   Doi, Sonia Q ^b  

^a Universidade Castelo Branco   (Brazil)

^b UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amino acids; Extracellular matrix; Gene expression

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ACTIN; ALPHA SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; COLLAGEN TYPE 4; FIBRONECTIN; GLUTAMINE; GLYCERALDEHYDE 3 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; MESSENGER RNA; TENASCIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL GROWTH; CELL SPECIFICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GLOMERULOPATHY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; MESANGIUM CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; STRESS FIBER;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; COLLAGEN TYPE IV; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FIBRONECTINS; GENE EXPRESSION; GLUTAMINE; MESANGIAL CELLS; MICE; RNA, MESSENGER; TENASCIN;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33646804874     PISSN: 02636484     EISSN: 10990844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cbf.1236     Document Type: Article

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