Substratum topography modulates corneal fibroblast to Myofibroblast transformation

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 811-816

  Myrna, Kathern E ^a,b   Mendonsa, Rima ^a   Russell, Paul ^a   Pot, Simon A ^a,c   Liliensiek, Sara J ^d   Jester, James V ^e   Nealey, Paul F ^d   Brown, Donald ^e   Murphy, Christopher J ^a,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; MESSENGER RNA; SMAD7 PROTEIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; ACTA2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; ACTIN; RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA STROMA; FIBROBLAST; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MYOFIBROBLAST; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; RABBIT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SURFACE PROPERTY; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORNEA OPACITY; DISEASE MODEL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KERATOMETRY; PATHOLOGY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CORNEAL OPACITY; CORNEAL STROMA; CORNEAL TOPOGRAPHY; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FIBROBLASTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MYOFIBROBLASTS; RABBITS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA; SMAD7 PROTEIN;

EID: 84859975294     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.11-7982     Document Type: Article

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