Hyaluronan and layilin mediate loss of airway epithelial barrier function induced by cigarette smoke by decreasing

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Volumn 287, Issue 50, 2012, Pages 42288-42298

  Forteza, Rosanna Malbran ^a   Casalino Matsuda, S Marina ^b   Falcon, Nieves S ^a   Gattas, Monica Valencia ^a   Monzon, Maria E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARRIER FUNCTIONS; CELL-CELL CONTACT; CIGARETTE SMOKES; E-CADHERIN EXPRESSION; E-CADHERINS; EPITHELIAL BARRIER; EPITHELIAL PERMEABILITY; HUMAN AIRWAY; HUMAN BRONCHIAL EPITHELIAL CELLS; HYALURONAN; INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PRIMARY CULTURE; PROTEIN EXPRESSIONS; PROTEIN KINASE; TRANSEPITHELIAL ELECTRICAL RESISTANCES;

CELL CULTURE; CELLS; GLYCOPROTEINS; PROTEINS; TOBACCO;

GENE EXPRESSION;

CELL SURFACE PROTEIN; HYALURONIC ACID; LAYILIN; LENTIVIRUS VECTOR; RHO KINASE; RHOA GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UVOMORULIN;

ARTICLE; CELL CONTACT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPOLYMERIZATION; E CADHERIN GENE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; LUNG ALVEOLUS EPITHELIUM; LUNG INJURY; PERMEABILITY BARRIER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFLAMMATION; SMOKING; SMOKING HABIT;

CADHERINS; CELLS, CULTURED; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; HYALURONIC ACID; HYMECROMONE; INFLAMMATION; LECTINS, C-TYPE; LENTIVIRUS; MALE; PERMEABILITY; RESPIRATORY MUCOSA; RHO-ASSOCIATED KINASES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMOKING; TRANSDUCTION, GENETIC;

LENTIVIRUS;

EID: 84871318105     PISSN: 00219258     EISSN: 1083351X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M112.387795     Document Type: Article

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