Coming together: Liver fibrosis, collagen mRNAs and the RNA binding protein

Expert Review of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-3

  Cai, Le ^a   Fritz, Dillon ^b   Stefanovic, Lela ^a   Stefanovic, Branko ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; COLLAGEN TYPE 1; MESSENGER RNA; MYOSIN; MYOSIN LIGHT CHAIN; MYOSIN LIGHT CHAIN 7; PROCOLLAGEN; PROCOLLAGEN ALPHA1; PROCOLLAGEN ALPHA2; PROTEIN LARP6; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; AUTOANTIGEN; COLLAGEN TYPE I, ALPHA 1 CHAIN; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAIN; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; SS B ANTIGEN; SS-B ANTIGEN;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; BINDING AFFINITY; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL METABOLISM; CELL MOTILITY; COLLAGEN SYNTHESIS; EDITORIAL; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; ITO CELL; LIVER CELL; LIVER FIBROSIS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DEPHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN STABILITY; STEADY STATE; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; METABOLISM;

AUTOANTIGENS; COLLAGEN TYPE I; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAINS; MYOSIN LIGHT CHAINS; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS;

EID: 65549164089     PISSN: 17474124     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/17474124.3.1.1     Document Type: Editorial

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