Roles of RhoA and Rac1 on actin remodeling and cell alignment and differentiation in fetal type II epithelial cells exposed to cyclic mechanical stretch

Experimental Lung Research

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 663-680

  Silbert, Ophira ^a   Wang, Yulian ^a   Maciejewski, Benjamin S ^a   Lee, Hyeon Soo ^a   Shaw, Sunil K ^a   Sanchez Esteban, Juan ^a,b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WOMEN AND INFANTS HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Lung development; Mechanotransduction; Surfactant protein C

Indexed keywords

GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; MESSENGER RNA; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN CDC42; RAC1 PROTEIN; RHOA GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; SURFACTANT PROTEIN C;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIUM CELL; FETUS; FETUS CELL; LUNG DEVELOPMENT; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EPITHELIAL CELLS; EXTRACELLULAR SIGNAL-REGULATED MAP KINASES; FEMALE; LUNG; PHOSPHORYLATION; PREGNANCY; RAC1 GTP-BINDING PROTEIN; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RHOA GTP-BINDING PROTEIN; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 57749083294     PISSN: 01902148     EISSN: 15210499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01902140802339615     Document Type: Article

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