An updated review of mechanotransduction in skin disorders: Transcriptional regulators, ion channels, and microRNAs

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Volumn 72, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 2091-2106

  Wang, Jing ^a   Zhang, Yifan ^a   Zhang, Ning ^a   Wang, Chuandong ^a   Herrler, Tanja ^b   Li, Qingfeng ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fibrosis; Hypertrophic scar; Piezo; Scleroderma; TRP; Wound healing

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; HIPPO PROTEIN, HUMAN; ION CHANNEL; MICRORNA; PHOSPHOPROTEIN; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCING ADAPTOR PROTEIN; TAZ PROTEIN, HUMAN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP 1; YAP1 (YES-ASSOCIATED) PROTEIN, HUMAN;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SKIN; SKIN DISEASE; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY; WOUND HEALING;

ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; BETA CATENIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; ION CHANNELS; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; MICRORNAS; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; SKIN; SKIN DISEASES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP-1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 84938059373     PISSN: 1420682X     EISSN: 14209071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00018-015-1853-y     Document Type: Review

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