Ceramide Synthases Expression and Role of Ceramide Synthase-2 in the Lung: Insight from Human Lung Cells and Mouse Models

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Petrache, Irina ^a,b   Kamocki, Krzysztof ^a   Poirier, Christophe ^a   Pewzner Jung, Yael ^c   Laviad, Elad L ^c   Schweitzer, Kelly S ^a   Van Demark, Mary ^a   Justice, Matthew J ^a   Hubbard, Walter C ^d   Futerman, Anthony H ^c  

^a Division of Pulmonary Critical Care Allergy and Occupational Medicine   (United States)

^b RICHARD L ROUDEBUSH VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CERAMIDE; CERAMIDE SYNTHASE 2; CERAMIDE SYNTHASE 5; SPHINGOMYELIN PHOSPHODIESTERASE; SYNTHETASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LIPOGENESIS; LUNG ALVEOLUS CELL; LUNG VOLUME; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFLAMMATION;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CERAMIDES; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; PULMONARY ALVEOLI; SPHINGOSINE N-ACYLTRANSFERASE; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEINS;

EID: 84877753914     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0062968     Document Type: Article

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