Toll-like receptor activation in airway smooth muscle: Dual actions via separate MAPK pathways

American Journal of Physiology - Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology

Volumn 291, Issue 3, 2006, Pages

  Bachar, Ofir ^a   Adner, Mikael ^a   Cardell, Lars Olaf ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 6; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE P38 INHIBITOR; STRESS ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 4; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 9;

AIRWAY; ASTHMA; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RESPIRATORY EPITHELIUM; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER;

ASTHMA; BRONCHI; HUMANS; MAP KINASE SIGNALING SYSTEM; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASES; MYOCYTES, SMOOTH MUSCLE; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTORS;

EID: 33748425609     PISSN: 10400605     EISSN: 15221504     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajplung.00141.2006     Document Type: Editorial

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