Connective tissue growth factor causes EMT-like cell fate changes in vivo and in vitro

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 126, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2164-2175

  Sonnylal, Sonali ^a   Xu, Shiwen ^b   Jones, Helen ^b   Tam, Angela ^b   Sreeram, Vivek R ^b   Ponticos, Markella ^b   Norman, Jill ^b   Agrawal, Pankaj ^a   Abraham, David ^b   de Crombrugghe, Benoit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CTGF; Dermal fibrosis; Epithelial mesenchymal transition; Pulmonary fibrosis

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; BETA INTEGRIN; CALVASCULIN; COLLAGEN TYPE 2; CONNECTIVE TISSUE GROWTH FACTOR; KERATIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SNAIL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX9; UVOMORULIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL FATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LUNG FIBROSIS; MESENCHYME CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKIN FIBROSIS; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

CTGF; DERMAL FIBROSIS; EPITHELIAL-MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; PULMONARY FIBROSIS;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; COLLAGEN TYPE I; CONNECTIVE TISSUE GROWTH FACTOR; EPITHELIAL-MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; FIBROBLASTS; FOCAL EPITHELIAL HYPERPLASIA; LUNG; MAP KINASE SIGNALING SYSTEM; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PARACRINE COMMUNICATION; PULMONARY FIBROSIS; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TRANSGENES;

GASTROPODA; MUS; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 84879874893     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: 14779137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jcs.111302     Document Type: Article

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