β-Catenin in the alveolar epithelium protects from lung fibrosis after intratracheal bleomycin

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 187, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 630-639

  Tanjore, Harikrishna ^a   Degryse, Amber L ^a   Crossno, Peter F ^a,c   Xu, Xiaochuan C ^a   McConaha, Melinda E ^a   Jones, Brittany R ^a   Polosukhin, Vasiliy V ^a   Bryant, Andrew J ^a   Cheng, Dong Sheng ^a   Newcomb, Dawn C ^a   McMahon, Frank B ^a   Gleaves, Linda A ^a   Blackwell, Timothy S ^a,b   Lawson, William E ^a,b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c INTERMOUNTAIN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis; Wound healing

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; BLEOMYCIN; COLLAGEN; PROTEIN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL FATE; CELL LINEAGE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MODIFICATION; DRUG CYTOTOXICITY; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; GENE DELETION; GENE SILENCING; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IN VITRO STUDY; INFLAMMATION; LUNG ALVEOLUS EPITHELIUM; LUNG FIBROBLAST; LUNG FIBROSIS; LUNG INJURY; LUNG LAVAGE; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MORTALITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; WOUND CLOSURE;

ANIMALS; BETA CATENIN; BLEOMYCIN; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EPITHELIUM; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; LUNG INJURY; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PULMONARY ALVEOLI; PULMONARY FIBROSIS; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 84875129095     PISSN: 1073449X     EISSN: 15354970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1164/rccm.201205-0972OC     Document Type: Article

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