Thymosin β4 upregulates the expression of hepatocyte growth factor and downregulates the expression of PDGF-β receptor in human hepatic stellate cells

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1112, Issue , 2007, Pages 154-160

  Barnaeva, Elena ^a   Nadezhda, Agladze ^b   Hannappel, Ewald ^c   Sjogren, Maria H ^a   Rojkind, Marcos ^b  

^a WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antifibrogenic therapy; Hepatic stellate cells; Hepatocyte growth factor; Liver fibrosis; PDGF ; Receptor; Thymosin 4

Indexed keywords

ANTIFIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; COLLAGEN TYPE 1; MESSENGER RNA; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR BETA RECEPTOR; SCATTER FACTOR; THYMOSIN BETA4; TISSUE INHIBITOR OF METALLOPROTEINASE 1; TISSUE INHIBITOR OF METALLOPROTEINASE 2; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; PRIMER DNA; THYMOSIN; THYMOSIN BETA(4); UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DOWN REGULATION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CODE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; KIDNEY FIBROSIS; LIVER CELL; LIVER FIBROSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SCAR FORMATION; STELLATE CELL; UPREGULATION; ARTICLE; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LIVER; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALIA;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DNA PRIMERS; DOWN-REGULATION; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HEPATOCYTE GROWTH FACTOR; HUMANS; LIVER; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTOR, PLATELET-DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR BETA; RNA, MESSENGER; THYMOSIN;

EID: 35348990180     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1415.035     Document Type: Conference Paper

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