Pleiotropic effects of transforming growth factor-β1 on pericardial interstitial cells: Implications for fibrosis and calcification in idiopathic constrictive pericarditis

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 57, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 1634-1635

  Liu, Xiaohong ^a   Bai, Chenguang ^a   Gong, Dejun ^a   Yuan, Yang ^a   Han, Lin ^a   Lu, Fanglin ^a   Han, Qinqi ^a   Tang, Hao ^a   Huang, Shengdong ^a   Xu, Zhiyun ^a  

^a SECOND MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN TYPE 1; COLLAGEN TYPE 3; COLLAGENASE 3; INTERSTITIAL COLLAGENASE; TISSUE INHIBITOR OF METALLOPROTEINASE 1; TISSUE INHIBITOR OF METALLOPROTEINASE 2; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1;

CALCIFICATION; CONSTRICTIVE PERICARDITIS; HUMAN; LETTER; PLEIOTROPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

APOPTOSIS; CALCINOSIS; FIBROSIS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; PERICARDITIS, CONSTRICTIVE; PERICARDIUM; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1;

EID: 79953690508     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2010.10.054     Document Type: Letter

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