Leptin Promotes Fetal Lung Maturity and Upregulates SP-A Expression in Pulmonary Alveoli Type-II Epithelial Cells Involving TTF-1 Activation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Chen, Hui ^a,b   Zhang, Jian Ping ^a,b   Huang, Hui ^a   Wang, Zhen Hua ^a   Cheng, Rui ^c   Cai, Wei Bin ^b,c  

^a SUN YAT SEN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL OF SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEPTIN; PHOSPHATE BUFFERED SALINE; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; SURFACTANT PROTEIN A; THYROID TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 1;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BRANCHING MORPHOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS GROWTH; FETUS LUNG MATURITY; GENE SILENCING; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE ACTION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; LUNG ALVEOLUS CELL TYPE 2; LUNG WEIGHT; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INDUCTION; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; UPREGULATION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; FETUS; LEPTIN; LUNG; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PULMONARY ALVEOLI; PULMONARY SURFACTANT-ASSOCIATED PROTEIN A; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, LEPTIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 84880674755     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0069297     Document Type: Article

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