Thymosin β4-sulfoxide attenuates inflammatory cell infiltration and promotes cardiac wound healing

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Evans, Mark A ^a   Smart, Nicola ^a   Dubé, Karina N ^a   Bollini, Sveva ^a   Clark, James E ^b   Evans, Hayley G ^c   Taams, Leonie S ^c   Richardson, Rebecca ^d   Lévesque, Mathieu ^d   Martin, Paul ^d   Mills, Kevin ^e   Riegler, Johannes ^e,f   Price, Anthony N ^g   Lythgoe, Mark F ^e,f   Riley, Paul R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b ST THOMAS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^g IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; SULFOXIDE; THYMOSIN BETA4 SULFOXIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CELL ORGANELLE; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFILTRATION; INJURY; OXIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL INFILTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FISH; HEART INJURY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFLAMMATORY CELL; MACROPHAGE; MONOCYTE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; SCAR FORMATION; WOUND HEALING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL ADHESION; CELL DEATH; CELL MOVEMENT; HUMANS; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; INFLAMMATION; LEUKOCYTES; MACROPHAGES; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MONOCYTES; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIUM; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; THYMOSIN; WOUND HEALING; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 84880124948     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3081     Document Type: Article

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