Beta2-adrenergic signaling affects the phenotype of human cardiac progenitor cells through EMT modulation

Pharmacological Research

Volumn 127, Issue , 2018, Pages 41-48

  Pagano, Francesca ^a   Angelini, Francesco ^a   Siciliano, Camilla ^a   Tasciotti, Julia ^a   Mangino, Giorgio ^a   De Falco, Elena ^a   Carnevale, Roberto ^a   Sciarretta, Sebastiano ^a,b   Frati, Giacomo ^a,b   Chimenti, Isotta ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b IRCCS NEUROMED   (Italy)

Author keywords

Beta2 adrenergic signaling; Cardiac progenitor cells; Cardiosphere; Epithelial to mesenchymal transition

Indexed keywords

BETA 2 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; COLLAGEN TYPE 1; COLLAGEN TYPE 3; THY 1 ANTIGEN; BUTOXAMINE; CLENBUTEROL; COLLAGEN; CYTOKINE; SNAI1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; THY 1 MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SNAIL;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CARDIAC STEM CELL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL POPULATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL VIABILITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MODULATION; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SECRETION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SNAI1 GENE; ANTAGONISTS AND INHIBITORS; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL CULTURE; CELL MOTION; DRUG EFFECT; GENE EXPRESSION; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; STEM CELL;

BUTOXAMINE; CELL MOVEMENT; CELLS, CULTURED; CLENBUTEROL; COLLAGEN; CYTOKINES; EPITHELIAL-MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; PHENOTYPE; RECEPTORS, ADRENERGIC, BETA-2; SNAIL FAMILY TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; STEM CELLS; THY-1 ANTIGENS;

EID: 85010505660     PISSN: 10436618     EISSN: 10961186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.phrs.2017.01.016     Document Type: Article

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