Apical localization of zinc transporter ZnT4 in human airway epithelial cells and its loss in a murine model of allergic airway inflammation

Nutrients

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 910-928

  Murgia, Chiara ^a   Grosser, Dion ^b   Truong Tran, Ai Q ^b   Roscioli, Eugene ^b   Michalczyk, Agnes ^c   AcKland, Margaret Leigh ^c   Stoltenberg, Meredin ^d   Danscher, Gorm ^d   Lang, Carol ^b   Knight, Darryl ^e   Perozzi, Giuditta ^a   Ruffin, Richard E ^b   Zalewski, Peter ^b  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DELLA NUTRIZIONE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^e ST PAUL S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Airway epithelium; Airway inflammation; Asthma; Se autometallography (Se AMG); Zinc; Zinc transporter; Zinquin; ZnT4

Indexed keywords

RETINOIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC ION; ZINC TRANSPORTER; ZINC TRANSPORTER 4;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOMETALLOGRAPHY; BRONCHUS MUCOSA; CELL GROWTH; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DOWN REGULATION; EPITHELIUM CELL; FLUORESCENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NOSE MUCOSA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RESPIRATORY EPITHELIUM; RESPIRATORY TRACT ALLERGY; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFLAMMATION; SECRETORY VESICLE; SWINE;

EID: 82155166775     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20726643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/nu3110910     Document Type: Article

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