Activated alveolar epithelial cells initiate fibrosis through secretion of mesenchymal proteins

American Journal of Pathology

Volumn 183, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1559-1570

  Yang, Jibing ^a   Wheeler, Sarah E ^b   Velikoff, Miranda ^a   Kleaveland, Kathryn R ^a   Lafemina, Michael J ^b   Frank, James A ^b   Chapman, Harold A ^b   Christensen, Paul J ^a   Kim, Kevin K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN TYPE 1; DISCOIDIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ISOLATION; COL1A1 GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFECTOR CELL; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; FIBROGENESIS; GENE; LUNG ALVEOLUS EPITHELIUM; LUNG FIBROBLAST; LUNG FIBROSIS; MESENCHYME; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SECRETION;

ANIMALS; COLLAGEN TYPE I; FIBROBLASTS; FIBROSIS; GENE DELETION; HUMANS; MESODERM; MICE; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PNEUMOCYTES; PNEUMONIA; PROTEINS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84886686398     PISSN: 00029440     EISSN: 15252191     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajpath.2013.07.016     Document Type: Article

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