A systems approach to mapping transcriptional networks controlling surfactant homeostasis

BMC Genomics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Xu, Yan ^a   Zhang, Minlu ^a   Wang, Yanhua ^a   Kadambi, Pooja ^b   Dave, Vrushank ^a   Lu, Long J ^a   Whitsett, Jeffrey A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b University of Cincinnati   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CCAAT ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN ALPHA; HEPATOCYTE NUCLEAR FACTOR 3BETA; INTERFERON REGULATORY FACTOR 1; LUNG SURFACTANT; ONCOPROTEIN; STEROL REGULATORY ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 6;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; CELL DEATH; CELL MATURATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE MAPPING; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC SIMILARITY; HOMEOSTASIS; LIPID TRANSPORT; LIPOGENESIS; LUNG FUNCTION; METABOLIC REGULATION; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ANIMAL; LUNG; METABOLISM;

ANIMALS; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; HOMEOSTASIS; LUNG; MICE; PULMONARY SURFACTANTS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 77954873286     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-11-451     Document Type: Article

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