Brief report: Fibrosis caused by Loss of pten expression in mouse fibroblasts is crucially dependent on CCN2

Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 65, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2940-2944

  Liu, Shangxi ^a   Parapuram, Sunil K ^a   Leask, Andrew ^a  

^a WESTERN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; CONNECTIVE TISSUE GROWTH FACTOR; CYCLINE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3,4,5 TRISPHOSPHATE 3 PHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN KINASE B; AKT1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; CTGF PROTEIN, MOUSE; PTEN PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FIBROBLAST; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOUSE; MYOFIBROBLAST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SKIN FIBROSIS; ANIMAL; DERMIS; DIFFUSE SCLERODERMA; FIBROSIS; GENETICS; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY;

ANIMALS; COLLAGEN; CONNECTIVE TISSUE GROWTH FACTOR; DERMIS; FIBROBLASTS; FIBROSIS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PROLIFERATING CELL NUCLEAR ANTIGEN; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-AKT; PTEN PHOSPHOHYDROLASE; SCLERODERMA, DIFFUSE;

EID: 84886784325     PISSN: 00043591     EISSN: 15290131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/art.38121     Document Type: Article

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