β-catenin signaling is required for TGF-β1-induced extracellular matrix production by airway smooth muscle cells

American Journal of Physiology - Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology

Volumn 301, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Baarsma, Hoeke A ^a   Menzen, Mark H ^a   Halayko, Andrew J ^b   Meurs, Herman ^a   Kerstjens, Huib A M ^c   Gosens, Reinoud ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Airway remodeling; Asthma; Collagen; Fibronectin; Versican

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1;

AIRWAY; ARTICLE; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER;

BETA CATENIN; BRONCHI; CELL LINE; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FIBRONECTINS; GLYCOGEN SYNTHASE KINASE 3; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES, OBSTRUCTIVE; MYOCYTES, SMOOTH MUSCLE; PERYLENE; RNA INTERFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1;

EID: 82855181124     PISSN: 10400605     EISSN: 15221504     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajplung.00123.2011     Document Type: Article

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