Nerve growth factor has a modulatory role on human primary fibroblast cultures derived from vernal keratoconjunctivitis-affected conjunctiva

Molecular Vision

Volumn 13, Issue , 2007, Pages 981-987

  Micera, Alessandra ^a,b   Lambiase, Alessandro ^a   Stampachiacchiere, Barbara ^a,b   Sgruletta, Roberto ^a   Normando, Eduardo Maria ^a   Bonini, Sergio ^c   Bonini, Stefano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY CAMPUS BIO MEDICO   (Italy)

^b IRCCS FONDAZIONE BIETTI   (Italy)

^c SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; COLLAGEN TYPE 1; COLLAGEN TYPE 4; GELATINASE A; GELATINASE B; MESSENGER RNA; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; PROTEIN P75; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE A; TISSUE INHIBITOR OF METALLOPROTEINASE 1; TISSUE INHIBITOR OF METALLOPROTEINASE 2;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; AUTOCRINE EFFECT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; FIBROBLAST CULTURE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SCHOOL CHILD; TISSUE REGENERATION; UPREGULATION; VERNAL CONJUNCTIVITIS;

ACTINS; ADOLESCENT; ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CHILD; COLLAGEN TYPE I; COLLAGEN TYPE IV; CONJUNCTIVA; CONJUNCTIVITIS, ALLERGIC; DOWN-REGULATION; FIBROBLASTS; HUMANS; MALE; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE 9; MICE; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; RECEPTOR, NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; RECEPTOR, TRKA; RNA, MESSENGER; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 34250829626     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10900535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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