Sox18 Preserves the Pulmonary Endothelial Barrier Under Conditions of Increased Shear Stress

Journal of Cellular Physiology

Volumn 229, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1802-1816

  Gross, Christine M ^a   Aggarwal, Saurabh ^a   Kumar, Sanjiv ^a   Tian, Jing ^a   Kasa, Anita ^a   Bogatcheva, Natalia ^a   Datar, Sanjeev A ^b   Verin, Alexander D ^a   Fineman, Jeffrey R ^b,c   Black, Stephen M ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLAUDIN 5; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX18;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERY RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CELLULAR STRESS RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EWE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; LAMINAR FLOW; LUNG BLOOD FLOW; LUNG ENDOTHELIUM; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PULMONARY ENDOTHELIAL BARRIER FUNCTION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SHEAR STRESS; UPREGULATION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; CELL PROLIFERATION; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG; PULMONARY ARTERY; SHEAR STRENGTH; SHEEP; SOXF TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TIGHT JUNCTION PROTEINS; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 84904906537     PISSN: 00219541     EISSN: 10974652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jcp.24633     Document Type: Article

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