Partially evoked epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is associated with increased TGFβ signaling within lesional scleroderma skin

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  Nikitorowicz Buniak, Joanna ^a   Denton, Christopher P ^a   Abraham, David ^a   Stratton, Richard ^a  

^a ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALVASCULIN; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN SNAI1; SMAD2 PROTEIN; SMAD3 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SLUG; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UVOMORULIN; TGFB1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1;

ARTICLE; BLISTER; CANCER CELL LINE; CELL NUCLEUS TRANSPLANTATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPIDERMIS; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; HACAT CELL LINE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; IN VITRO STUDY; KERATINOCYTE; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CELL CULTURE; CELL PROLIFERATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PHOSPHORYLATION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SKIN DISEASE;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLS, CULTURED; EPITHELIAL-MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; KERATINOCYTES; PHOSPHORYLATION; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC; SKIN DISEASES; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1;

EID: 84941985446     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0134092     Document Type: Article

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