Short-term weightlessness produced by parabolic flight maneuvers altered gene expression patterns in human endothelial cells

FASEB Journal

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 639-655

  Grosse, Jirka ^a   Wehland, Markus ^b   Pietsch, Jessica ^b   Xiao, Ma ^c   Ulbrich, Claudia ^d   Schulz, Herbert ^e   Saar, Katrin ^e   Hübner, Norbert ^e   Hauslage, Jens ^f   Hemmersbach, Ruth ^f   Braun, Markus ^g   Van Loon, Jack ^h   Vagt, Nicole ^g   Infanger, Manfred ^b   Eilles, Christoph ^a   Egli, Marcel ⁱ   Richter, Peter ^j   Baltz, Theo ^k   Einspanier, Ralf ^l   Sharbati, Soroush ^l   Grimm, Daniela ^b,c   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^e MAX DELBRÜCK CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Germany)

^f GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^h VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

ⁱ ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^j UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^k UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^l FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

more..

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Cytoskeleton; Integrins; Microgravity

Indexed keywords

A DISINTEGRIN AND METALLOPROTEINASE DOMAIN 19; ABELSON KINASE; ALPHA ACTININ 2; ALPHA INTEGRIN; ALPHA10 INTEGRIN; ALPHA6 INTEGRIN; BETA TUBULIN; CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN RELATED CELL ADHESION MOLECULE 1; CARRIER PROTEINS AND BINDING PROTEINS; CASPASE RECRUITMENT DOMAIN CONTAINING PROTEIN 8; CAVEOLIN 2; COLLAGEN TYPE 4; COLLAGEN TYPE 8; ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; ENDOTHELIN 1; GELSOLIN; METALLOPROTEINASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; PROTEIN KINASE C; SERINE PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR; TUMOUR NECROSIS FACTOR RECEPTOR SUPERFAMILY MEMBER 12A; TUMOUR NECROSIS FACTOR RECEPTOR SUPERFAMILY MEMBER 5; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIMENTIN; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL STRUCTURE; CYTOSKELETON; DOWN REGULATION; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MICROGRAVITY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPACE FLIGHT; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; UPREGULATION; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

BASE SEQUENCE; CAVEOLAE; CELL LINE; CELL SURVIVAL; CYTOSKELETON; DNA PRIMERS; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; MICROTUBULES; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPACE FLIGHT; TIME FACTORS; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

EID: 84856517768     PISSN: 08926638     EISSN: 15306860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1096/fj.11-194886     Document Type: Article

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