Glial fibrillary acidic protein splice variants in hepatic stellate cells - Expression and regulation

Molecules and Cells

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 376-384

  Lim, Michelle Chin Chia ^a   Maubach, Gunter ^a   Zhuo, Lang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOENGINEERING AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Expression; GFAP splice variants; Hepatic stellate cells; IFN

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; GENOMIC DNA; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN ALPHA; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN BETA; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN DELTA; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN EPSILON; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN KAPPA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ISOPROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL IMMORTALIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HALF LIFE TIME; ITO CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN VARIANT; RAT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SPLICING; SCHWANN CELL; STELLATE CELL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; CELL LINE; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; LIVER; METABOLISM; RNA STABILITY; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CELLS, CULTURED; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HALF-LIFE; INTERFERON TYPE II; LIVER; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RNA SPLICING; RNA STABILITY; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 51049109911     PISSN: 10168478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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