Up-regulating relaxin expression by G-quadruplex interactive ligand to achieve antifibrotic action

Endocrinology

Volumn 153, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 3692-3700

  Gu, Hui Ping ^a,b   Lin, Sen ^c   Xu, Ming ^a   Yu, Hai Yi ^a,b   Du, Xiao Jun ^d   Zhang, You Yi ^a,b   Yuan, Gu ^c   Gao, Wei ^a,b  

^a Peking University Health Science Center   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY THIRD HOSPITAL   (China)

^c Peking University   (China)

^d BAKER IDI HEART AND DIABETES INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOTENSIN II; BERBERINE; GUANINE QUADRUPLEX; MESSENGER RNA; RELAXIN; RNA POLYMERASE II; STAT3 PROTEIN; STAT5 PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIFIBROTIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVATION; COLLAGEN SYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ACTIVITY; FIBROBLAST; GENE EXPRESSION; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; BERBERINE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELLS, CULTURED; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; ENDOMYOCARDIAL FIBROSIS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; G-QUADRUPLEXES; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RELAXIN;

EID: 84864383682     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 19457170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2012-1114     Document Type: Article

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