Effect of the Wnt1/β-catenin signalling pathway on human embryonic pulmonary fibroblasts

Molecular Medicine Reports

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 1030-1036

  Song, Ping ^a   Zheng, Jin Xu ^a   Liu, Ji Zhu ^b   Xu, Jiao ^a   Wu, Li Yan ^a   Liu, Chao ^a   Zhu, Qin ^a   Wang, Yang ^a  

^a JIANGSU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Huaibei Miner's General Hospital   (China)

Author keywords

Fibroblast; Pulmonary fibrosis; Wnt1; catenin

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; BETA CATENIN; BLEOMYCIN; COLLAGEN TYPE 1; MESSENGER RNA; SHORT HAIRPIN RNA; VIMENTIN; WNT1 PROTEIN; ACTIN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; WNT1 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EMBRYONIC PULMONARY FIBROBLAST; LENTIVIRINAE; LUNG FIBROBLAST; LUNG FIBROSIS; LUNG LAVAGE; MOUSE; MYOFIBROBLAST; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STIMULATION; ANIMAL; ANTAGONISTS AND INHIBITORS; C57BL MOUSE; CELL LINE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; CYTOLOGY; DISEASE MODEL; DRUG EFFECTS; FIBROBLAST; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; RNA INTERFERENCE; TOXICITY; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; BETA CATENIN; BLEOMYCIN; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; CELL LINE; CELL PROLIFERATION; COLLAGEN TYPE I; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; FIBROBLASTS; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PULMONARY FIBROSIS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; VIMENTIN; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY; WNT1 PROTEIN;

EID: 84903270603     PISSN: 17912997     EISSN: 17913004     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/mmr.2014.2261     Document Type: Article

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