Heat shock protein 47 can be a new target molecule for intestinal fibrosis related to inflammatory bowel disease

Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2004-2006

  Honzawa, Yusuke ^a   Nakase, Hiroshi ^a   Takeda, Yasuhiro ^a   Nagata, Kazuhiro ^b   Chiba, Tsutomu ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; COLLAGEN TYPE 1; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 47; PEPTIDE VACCINE; PHOSPHATE BUFFERED SALINE; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; TRINITROBENZENESULFONIC ACID;

BLOOD SAMPLING; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; CROHN DISEASE; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DOUBLE ANTIBODY SANDWICH ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ENTERITIS; FIBROBLAST; HUMAN; INTESTINAL FIBROSIS; LETTER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; TISSUE REGENERATION; ULCERATIVE COLITIS; WOUND HEALING;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COLITIS, ULCERATIVE; CROHN DISEASE; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FIBROSIS; HSP47 HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; HUMANS; INTESTINES; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 78649613792     PISSN: 10780998     EISSN: 15364844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ibd.21243     Document Type: Letter

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