Signal transducer and activator of transcription 1 (STAT1) is essential for chromium silencing of gene induction in human airway epithelial cells

Toxicological Sciences

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 212-223

  Nemec, Antonia A ^a   Barchowsky, Aaron ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromium; ERK; HIF 1 ; Nickel; Src; VEGFA

Indexed keywords

CHROMIUM; HYPOXIA INDUCIBLE FACTOR 1ALPHA; MESSENGER RNA; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; NICKEL; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; STAT1 PROTEIN; VASCULOTROPIN A;

ARTICLE; CELL REGENERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE INDUCTION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LUNG ALVEOLUS EPITHELIUM; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SECRETION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELLS, CULTURED; CHROMIUM; EPITHELIAL CELLS; EXTRACELLULAR SIGNAL-REGULATED MAP KINASES; GENE SILENCING; GENES, SRC; HUMANS; HYPOXIA-INDUCIBLE FACTOR 1, ALPHA SUBUNIT; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; LUCIFERASES; METALS; NICKEL; PHOSPHORYLATION; POLYCYCLIC HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; RESPIRATORY MUCOSA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA; STAT1 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A;

EID: 67649173063     PISSN: 10966080     EISSN: 10960929     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/toxsci/kfp084     Document Type: Article

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