 Tropoelastin
"Tropoelastin" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A salt-soluble precursor of elastin. Lysyl oxidase is instrumental in converting it to elastin in connective tissue.
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D014333
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D12.776.811.850 D12.776.860.300.350.700
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| 1994 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 1996 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 1999 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Tropoelastin" by people in Profiles.
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Belknap JK, Weiser-Evans MC, Grieshaber SS, Majack RA, Stenmark KR. Relationship between perlecan and tropoelastin gene expression and cell replication in the developing rat pulmonary vasculature. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol. 1999 Jan; 20(1):24-34.
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Durmowicz AG, Frid MG, Wohrley JD, Stenmark KR. Expression and localization of tropoelastin mRNA in the developing bovine pulmonary artery is dependent on vascular cell phenotype. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol. 1996 Jun; 14(6):569-76.
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Durmowicz AG, Parks WC, Hyde DM, Mecham RP, Stenmark KR. Persistence, re-expression, and induction of pulmonary arterial fibronectin, tropoelastin, and type I procollagen mRNA expression in neonatal hypoxic pulmonary hypertension. Am J Pathol. 1994 Dec; 145(6):1411-20.
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Stenmark KR, Durmowicz AG, Roby JD, Mecham RP, Parks WC. Persistence of the fetal pattern of tropoelastin gene expression in severe neonatal bovine pulmonary hypertension. J Clin Invest. 1994 Mar; 93(3):1234-42.
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Durmowicz AG, Badesch DB, Parks WC, Mecham RP, Stenmark KR. Hypoxia-induced inhibition of tropoelastin synthesis by neonatal calf pulmonary artery smooth muscle cells. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol. 1991 Nov; 5(5):464-9.
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Prosser IW, Stenmark KR, Suthar M, Crouch EC, Mecham RP, Parks WC. Regional heterogeneity of elastin and collagen gene expression in intralobar arteries in response to hypoxic pulmonary hypertension as demonstrated by in situ hybridization. Am J Pathol. 1989 Dec; 135(6):1073-88.
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Parks WC, Mecham RP, Crouch EC, Orton EC, Stenmark KR. Response of lobar vessels to hypoxic pulmonary hypertension. Am Rev Respir Dis. 1989 Nov; 140(5):1455-7.
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Badesch DB, Lee PD, Parks WC, Stenmark KR. Insulin-like growth factor I stimulates elastin synthesis by bovine pulmonary arterial smooth muscle cells. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 1989 Apr 14; 160(1):382-7.
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