Connective tissue growth factor-mediated upregulation of neuromedin U expression in trabecular meshwork cells and its role in homeostasis of aqueous humor outflow

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 4952-4962

  Iyer, Padma ^a   Maddala, Rupalatha ^a   Pattabiraman, Padmanabhan P ^a   Rao, Ponugoti Vasantha ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOPOIETIN; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 2; CONNECTIVE TISSUE GROWTH FACTOR; DUAL SPECIFICITY PHOSPHATASE 6; ENDOTHELIN A RECEPTOR; FIBRONECTIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP A2 PROTEIN; HYPOCALCIN; INHIBITOR OF DIFFERENTIATION 1; INTERLEUKIN 13 RECEPTOR ALPHA2; INTERLEUKIN 32; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; INTERSTITIAL COLLAGENASE; KHELLIN; LAMININ; MICROSOMAL AMINOPEPTIDASE; MYOSIN LIGHT CHAIN; NEUROMEDIN U; PENTRAXIN 3; PHORBOL 13 ACETATE 12 MYRISTATE; RHO GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; RHO KINASE; SCLEROPROTEIN; NEUROPEPTIDE; RHOA GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; AQUEOUS HUMOR OUTFLOW; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MICROARRAY; DOWN REGULATION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOBLOTTING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SWINE; TRABECULAR MESHWORK; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; AQUEOUS HUMOR; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; AQUEOUS HUMOR; CONNECTIVE TISSUE GROWTH FACTOR; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HOMEOSTASIS; NEUROPEPTIDES; PHOSPHORYLATION; RHOA GTP-BINDING PROTEIN; SWINE; TRABECULAR MESHWORK; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 84867382575     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.12-9681     Document Type: Article

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