Cargando…

mPGES-1 null mice are resistant to bleomycin-induced skin fibrosis

INTRODUCTION: Microsomal prostaglandin E2 synthase-1 (mPGES-1) is an inducible enzyme that acts downstream of cyclooxygenase (COX) to specifically catalyze the conversion of prostaglandin (PG) H(2 )to PGE(2). mPGES-1 plays a key role in inflammation, pain and arthritis; however, the role of mPGES-1...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: McCann, Matthew R, Monemdjou, Roxana, Ghassemi-Kakroodi, Parisa, Fahmi, Hassan, Perez, Gemma, Liu, Shangxi, Shi-wen, Xu, Parapuram, Sunil K, Kojima, Fumiaki, Denton, Christopher P, Abraham, David J, Martel-Pelletier, Johanne, Crofford, Leslie J, Leask, Andrew, Kapoor, Mohit
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3546456/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21266028
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/ar3226