Krüppel-Like factor 4: Transcriptional regulator of proliferation, or inflammation, or differentiation, or all three?

Circulation Research

Volumn 102, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1455-1457

  Autieri, Michael V ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; KRUPPEL LIKE FACTOR 4; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; CDKN1A PROTEIN, MOUSE; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE INHIBITOR 1A; KRUPPEL LIKE FACTOR;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; DNA BINDING; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; MACROPHAGE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CAROTID ARTERY INJURY; CELL DIVISION; CYTOLOGY; DNA RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; HYPERPLASIA; INTIMA; LIGATION; MOUSE; NOTE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROMOTER REGION; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

ANIMALS; CAROTID ARTERY INJURIES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CYCLIN-DEPENDENT KINASE INHIBITOR P21; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; HYPERPLASIA; INFLAMMATION; KRUPPEL-LIKE TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; LIGATION; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; MYOCYTES, SMOOTH MUSCLE; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RESPONSE ELEMENTS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TUNICA INTIMA;

EID: 48249084551     PISSN: 00097330     EISSN: 15244571     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.108.178954     Document Type: Editorial

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