Epithelial-mesenchymal transition involved in pulmonary fibrosis induced by multi-walled carbon nanotubes via TGF-beta/Smad signaling pathway

Toxicology Letters

Volumn 226, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 150-162

  Chen, Tian ^a   Nie, Haiyu ^b   Gao, Xin ^a   Yang, Jinglin ^a   Pu, Ji ^a   Chen, Zhangjian ^a   Cui, Xiaoxing ^a   Wang, Yun ^a   Wang, Haifang ^c   Jia, Guang ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

^b CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Epithelial mesenchymal transition; MWCNT; Pulmonary fibrosis; Smad; TGF

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; MULTI WALLED NANOTUBE; PROTEIN C; SMAD2 PROTEIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; UVOMORULIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL TRANSDIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; EPITHELIUM CELL; EXPOSURE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LUNG FIBROBLAST; LUNG FIBROSIS; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UPREGULATION;

EPITHELIAL-MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; MWCNT; PULMONARY FIBROSIS; SMAD; TGF-Β;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CADHERINS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; COLLAGEN; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EPITHELIAL CELLS; EPITHELIAL-MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; FIBROBLASTS; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NANOTUBES, CARBON; PARTICLE SIZE; PHOSPHORYLATION; PULMONARY FIBROSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMAD2 PROTEIN; TIME FACTORS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1;

EID: 84896051627     PISSN: 03784274     EISSN: 18793169     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxlet.2014.02.004     Document Type: Article

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