Transforming growth factor β- At the centre of systemic sclerosis

Nature Reviews Rheumatology

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 706-719

  Lafyatis, Robert ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; CD51 ANTIGEN; FIBRILLIN; GAMMA INTERFERON INDUCIBLE PROTEIN 10; LATENT TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA BINDING PROTEIN; MACROPHAGE INFLAMMATORY PROTEIN 1BETA; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1; PROTEIN ALK 5; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; PROTEINASE; THROMBOSPONDIN 1; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AUTOIMMUNITY; BINDING AFFINITY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MYOFIBROBLAST; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PLEIOTROPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; THROMBOCYTE ACTIVATION; UPREGULATION; VASCULAR DISEASE; IMMUNOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

HUMANS; MYOFIBROBLASTS; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

EID: 84927176114     PISSN: 17594790     EISSN: 17594804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrrheum.2014.137     Document Type: Review

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