What's wrong with the scleroderma fibroblast?

Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology

Volumn 22, Issue 3 SUPPL. 33, 2004, Pages

  Korn, Joseph H ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Fibroblast; Pathogenesis; Scleroderma

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

CELL CULTURE; COLLAGEN SYNTHESIS; FIBROBLAST; FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS; FIBROSIS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IN VITRO STUDY; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NOTE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SCLERODERMA; ARTICLE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; IN VIVO STUDY; SKIN DISEASE; VASCULAR FIBROSIS;

COLLAGEN; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; FIBROBLASTS; FIBROSIS; HUMANS; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; VASCULAR DISEASES;

EID: 4444292561     PISSN: 0392856X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Note

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