Functional role of intracellular labile zinc in pulmonary endothelium

Pulmonary Circulation

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 443-451

  Thambiayya, Kalidasan ^a   Kaynar, A Murat ^b   St Croix, Claudette M ^b   Pitt, Bruce R ^a,b  

^a University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute lung injury (ALI); Apoptosis; Metallothionien (MT); Pulmonary endothelium; SLC39A14 or ZIP14; Zinc homeostasis

Indexed keywords

EID: 85016119365     PISSN: 20458932     EISSN: 20458940     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/2045-8932.105032     Document Type: Review

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