Hepatic stellate cells express synemin, a protein bridging intermediate filaments to focal adhesions

Gut

Volumn 55, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1276-1289

  Uyama, N ^b   Zhao, L ^c   Van Rossen, E ^b   Hirako, Y ^d   Reynaert, H ^b   Adams, D H ^e   Xue, Z ^f   Li, Z ^f   Robson, R ^g   Pekny, M ^h   Geerts, A ^a,b  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b FACULTY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY   (Belgium)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^f CNRS   (France)

^g IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESMIN; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEIN; SYNEMIN; TALIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIMENTIN; VINCULIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DOWN REGULATION; FOCAL ADHESION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STELLATE CELL; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CARBON TETRACHLORIDE; CELLS, CULTURED; CYTOPLASM; DOWN-REGULATION; HEPATOCYTES; HUMANS; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEINS; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENTS; LIVER; LIVER DISEASES; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; PROTEIN BINDING; RATS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 33747797033     PISSN: 00175749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/gut.2005.078865     Document Type: Article

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