Cadherin-11 contributes to pulmonary fibrosis: Potential role in TGF-β production and epithelial to mesenchymal transition

FASEB Journal

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 503-512

  Schneider, Daniel J ^a   Wu, Minghua ^a   Le, Thuy T ^a   Cho, Seo Hee ^a   Brenner, Michael B ^b   Blackburn, Michael R ^a   Agarwal, Sandeep K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Alveolar; Extracellular matrix; Fibroblast; Lung; Macrophage

Indexed keywords

BLEOMYCIN; CADHERIN; CADHERIN 11; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; FEMALE; FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG ALVEOLUS EPITHELIUM; LUNG ALVEOLUS MACROPHAGE; LUNG FIBROBLAST; LUNG FIBROSIS; LUNG LAVAGE; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UPREGULATION; WESTERN BLOTTING; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; BLEOMYCIN; CADHERINS; CELL LINE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EPITHELIAL-MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IDIOPATHIC PULMONARY FIBROSIS; MACROPHAGES, ALVEOLAR; MICE; MICE, 129 STRAIN; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PULMONARY FIBROSIS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

MUS;

EID: 84856558596     PISSN: 08926638     EISSN: 15306860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1096/fj.11-186098     Document Type: Article

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