Relaxin Regulates Myofibroblast Contractility and Protects against Lung Fibrosis

American Journal of Pathology

Volumn 179, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 2751-2765

  Huang, Xiangwei ^a   Gai, Ying ^a   Yang, Naiheng ^a   Lu, Baogen ^a   Samuel, Chrishan S ^c   Thannickal, Victor J ^a   Zhou, Yong ^a,b  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b and Radiation Oncology   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC GMP; CYCLIC GMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; MYOSIN LIGHT CHAIN; NITRIC OXIDE; RELAXIN; RHOA GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME INACTIVATION; EX VIVO STUDY; FEMALE; FIBROGENESIS; HORMONE ACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VIVO STUDY; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; LUNG FIBROBLAST; LUNG FIBROSIS; MOUSE; MUSCLE FIBER CONTRACTION; MYOFIBROBLAST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; ANTIBIOTICS, ANTINEOPLASTIC; BLEOMYCIN; CELLS, CULTURED; FEMALE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HUMANS; IDIOPATHIC PULMONARY FIBROSIS; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; MYOFIBROBLASTS; MYOSIN LIGHT CHAINS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PULMONARY FIBROSIS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RELAXIN;

EID: 81255157548     PISSN: 00029440     EISSN: 15252191     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajpath.2011.08.018     Document Type: Article

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