Activation of rat alveolar macrophage-derived latent transforming growth factor beta-1 by plasmin requires interaction with thrombospondin-1 and its cell surface receptor, CD36.

Yehualaeshet T, O'Connor R, Green-Johnson J, Mai S, Silverstein R, Murphy-Ullrich JE, Khalil N. Activation of rat alveolar macrophage-derived latent transforming growth factor beta-1 by plasmin requires interaction with thrombospondin-1 and its cell surface receptor, CD36. Am J Pathol. 1999 Sep; 155(3):841-51.

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subject areas

Animals
Antibodies, Monoclonal
Antimetabolites, Antineoplastic
Bleomycin
Blotting, Western
Cells, Cultured
Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay
Female
Fibrinolysin
Fluorescent Antibody Technique, Indirect
Macrophages, Alveolar
Precipitin Tests
Proteins
Rats
Rats, Sprague-Dawley
Thrombospondin 1
TNF Receptor-Associated Factor 3
Transforming Growth Factor beta

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