miR-21 Promotes Fibrogenic Epithelial-to-Mesenchymal Transition of Epicardial Mesothelial Cells Involving Programmed Cell Death 4 and Sprouty-1

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Brønnum, Hasse ^a,b   Andersen, Ditte C ^a   Schneider, Mikael ^a   Sandberg, Maria B ^a   Eskildsen, Tilde ^a   Nielsen, Solveig B ^a   Kalluri, Raghu ^b   Sheikh, Søren P ^a  

^a ODENSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; CELL PROTEIN; MICRORNA 21; PROGRAMMED CELL DEATH 4; SPROUTY 1 PROTEIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UVOMORULIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ASSAY; CELL CLONING; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL MOTILITY; CELL VIABILITY; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; FIBROBLAST; FIBROSIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; IN VITRO STUDY; MESOTHELIUM CELL; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN TARGETING; RAT; UPREGULATION;

APOPTOSIS REGULATORY PROTEINS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EPITHELIAL-MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; FIBROSIS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICRORNAS; MYOCARDIUM; PERICARDIUM; PHENOTYPE; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PRIMARY CELL CULTURE; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS;

EID: 84874157794     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0056280     Document Type: Article

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