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Transforming growth Factor-beta1 induces phenotypic modulation of human lung fibroblasts to myofibroblast through a c-Jun-NH2-terminal kinase-dependent pathway.
American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine - 1 Jan 2001
Hashimoto S, Gon Y, Takeshita I, Matsumoto K, Maruoka S, Horie T
Abstract excerpt
Myofibroblasts play an important role in the fibrogenic process of pulmonary fibrosis. Transforming growth factor (TGF)-beta is well known to induce the phenotypic modulation of fibroblasts to myofibroblasts; however, the intracellular signal regulating induction of the myofibroblastic phenotype of human lung fibroblasts (HLF) has not been determined. In the present study, we examined the role of the...
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