Directing epithelial to mesenchymal transition through engineered microenvironments displaying orthogonal adhesive and mechanical cues

Journal of Biomedical Materials Research - Part A

Volumn 100 A, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2119-2127

  Markowski, Marilyn C ^a   Brown, Ashley C ^a   Barker, Thomas H ^a,b  

^a Emory University   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

alveolar epithelial cell; cell contractility; epithelial to mesenchymal transition; fibronectin mutant; substrate stiffness

Indexed keywords

ADHESIVE DOMAINS; ALVEOLAR EPITHELIAL CELLS; CELL INTERACTION; CELL-BINDING DOMAIN; CELLULAR PROCESS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; EPITHELIAL TO MESENCHYMAL TRANSITIONS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRICES; FIBRONECTIN MUTANT; INTEGRINS; LUNG EPITHELIAL CELLS; MECHANICAL CUES; MICROENVIRONMENTS; REGENERATIVE MEDICINE; TISSUE REGENERATION; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; VARYING STIFFNESS; WOUND HEALING;

BIOMECHANICS; CELLS; CYTOLOGY; ENZYME INHIBITION; STIFFNESS; TISSUE;

SUBSTRATES;

ALPHA3 INTEGRIN; ALPHA5 INTEGRIN; FIBRONECTIN; INTEGRIN; RHO FACTOR; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; LUNG ALVEOLUS EPITHELIUM; MICROENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CELL ADHESION; CELL LINE; CELLULAR MICROENVIRONMENT; CUES; EPITHELIAL CELLS; EPITHELIAL-MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; FIBRONECTINS; MINK; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN STABILITY; PULMONARY ALVEOLI; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, AMINO ACID; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

EID: 84862752809     PISSN: 15493296     EISSN: 15524965     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jbm.a.34068     Document Type: Article

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