Hedgehog signaling controls fibroblast activation and tissue fibrosis in systemic sclerosis

Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 64, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2724-2733

  Horn, Angelika ^a   Palumbo, Katrin ^a   Cordazzo, Cinzia ^a,b   Dees, Clara ^a   Akhmetshina, Alfiya ^a   Tomcik, Michal ^a,c   Zerr, Pawel ^a   Avouac, Jerome ^a,d   Gusinde, Johannes ^a   Zwerina, Jochen ^a   Roudaut, Hermine ^e   Traiffort, Elisabeth ^e   Ruat, Martial ^e   Distler, Oliver ^f   Schett, Georg ^a   Distler, Jörg H W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^e CNRS   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; BLEOMYCIN; COLLAGEN; PROTEIN PATCHED 1; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GLI1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GLI2;

ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; COLLAGEN SYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MOUSE; MYOFIBROBLAST; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKIN FIBROSIS; STRESS FIBER; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; BLEOMYCIN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; COLLAGEN; FEMALE; FIBROBLASTS; FIBROSIS; HEDGEHOG PROTEINS; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, ANIMAL; ONCOGENE PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKIN; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY;

EID: 84859260199     PISSN: 00043591     EISSN: 15290131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/art.34444     Document Type: Article

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