Regulation of airway mucin gene expression

Annual Review of Physiology

Volumn 70, Issue , 2008, Pages 405-429

  Thai, Philip ^a   Loukoianov, Artem ^a   Wachi, Shinichiro ^a   Wu, Reen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Differentiation; Epigenetics; Lung; Mucus; Transcription

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 4; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; MUCIN; MUCIN 1; MUCIN 2; MUCIN 3; MUCIN 4; MUCIN 5AC; MUCIN 5B; MUCIN 6; MUCIN 7; MUCIN 8; MYELOID DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR 88; RETINOIC ACID; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

AIRWAY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL HYPERPLASIA; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MUCOUS CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RESPIRATORY EPITHELIUM; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ANIMAL; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; LUNG; LUNG DISEASE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG DISEASES; MUCINS;

EID: 43549092861     PISSN: 00664278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.physiol.70.113006.100441     Document Type: Review

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