The effects of relaxin on extracellular matrix remodeling in health and fibrotic disease

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 612, Issue , 2007, Pages 88-103

  Samuel, Chrishan S ^a   Lekgabe, Edna D ^a   Mookerjee, Ishanee ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; MESSENGER RNA; RELAXIN; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; LGR7 PROTEIN, HUMAN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; RLN1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; RLN1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGED; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; COLLAGEN DEGRADATION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FIBROBLAST; FIBROGENESIS; FIBROSIS; GENITAL SYSTEM; KIDNEY FIBROSIS; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTION; REVIEW; ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; MALE; METABOLISM; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; PATHOLOGY; SCAR;

MUS;

ANIMALS; CICATRIX; COLLAGEN; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; HUMANS; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PREGNANCY; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; RELAXIN;

EID: 38749122842     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-74672-2_7     Document Type: Review

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