The hyaluronic acid receptor CD44 coordinates normal and metaplastic gastric epithelial progenitor cell proliferation

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Volumn 288, Issue 22, 2013, Pages 16085-16097

  Khurana, Shradha S ^a   Riehl, Terrence E ^a   Moore, Benjamin D ^a   Fassan, Matteo ^b   Rugge, Massimo ^b   Romero Gallo, Judith ^c   Noto, Jennifer ^c   Peek, Richard M ^c   Stenson, William F ^a   Mills, Jason C ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SIGNALING; HYALURONIC ACID; SIGNALING;

ACID RECEPTORS; CELL-BE; CELL/B.E; CELL/BE; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; IN-VIVO; PARIETAL CELLS; PROGENITOR CELL; STEM-CELL; UNDIFFERENTIATED CELLS;

STEM CELLS;

HERMES ANTIGEN; HYALURONIC ACID; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; STAT3 PROTEIN; TAMOXIFEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL EXPANSION; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GASTRIC STEM CELL; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTESTINE METAPLASIA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL; STOMACH ATROPHY; STOMACH EPITHELIUM; STOMACH PARIETAL CELL;

HELICOBACTER; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; MUS;

EID: 84878379235     PISSN: 00219258     EISSN: 1083351X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M112.445551     Document Type: Article

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