Transforming growth factor β1 is a powerful modulator of platelet‐derived growth factor action in vascular smooth muscle cells

Cleavage of Structural Proteins during the Assembly of the Head of Bacteriophage T4

1970 • 253,849 citations

Electrophoretic transfer of proteins from polyacrylamide gels to nitrocellulose sheets: procedure and some applications.

1979 • 54,907 citations

The Pathogenesis of Atherosclerosis — An Update

1986 • 4,951 citations

Stimulation of 3T3 cells induces transcription of the c-fos proto-oncogene

1984 • 3,150 citations

Human transforming growth factor-β complementary DNA sequence and expression in normal and transformed cells

1985 • 1,687 citations

Production of transforming growth factor beta by human T lymphocytes and its potential role in the regulation of T cell growth.

1986 • 1,617 citations

Some recent advances in the chemistry and biology of transforming growth factor-beta.

1987 • 1,308 citations

Pituitary FSH is released by a heterodimer of the β-subunits from the two forms of inhibin

1986 • 1,071 citations

Isolation of the bovine and human genes for müllerian inhibiting substance and expression of the human gene in animal cells

1986 • 997 citations

Expression and secretion of type beta transforming growth factor by activated human macrophages.

1987 • 981 citations

Replication of smooth muscle cells in vascular disease.

1986 • 770 citations

TGF-β induces bimodal proliferation of connective tissue cells via complex control of an autocrine PDGF loop

1990 • 756 citations

A transcript from a Drosophila pattern gene predicts a protein homologous to the transforming growth factor-β family

1987 • 756 citations

A maternal mRNA localized to the vegetal hemisphere in xenopus eggs codes for a growth factor related to TGF-β

1987 • 747 citations

Regulation of fibronectin and type I collagen mRNA levels by transforming growth factor-beta.

1987 • 736 citations

Complementary DNA sequences of ovarian follicular fluid inhibin show precursor structure and homology with transforming growth factor-β

1985 • 722 citations

The transforming growth factor-β system, a complex pattern of cross-reactive ligands and receptors

1987 • 710 citations

The TGF-β family of growth and differentiation factors

1987 • 675 citations

A nuclear factor 1 binding site mediates the transcriptional activation of a type I collagen promoter by transforming growth factor-β

1988 • 620 citations

Identification of a set of genes expressed during the G0/G1 transition of cultured mouse cells.

1985 • 589 citations

Effect of protein synthesis inhibitors on growth factor activation of c-fos, c-myc, and actin gene transcription.

1986 • 548 citations

Type beta transforming growth factor in human platelets: release during platelet degranulation and action on vascular smooth muscle cells.

1986 • 542 citations

Induction of c-sis mRNA and activity similar to platelet-derived growth factor by transforming growth factor beta: a proposed model for indirect mitogenesis involving autocrine activity.

1986 • 541 citations

Transforming growth factor beta increases mRNA for matrix proteins both in the presence and in the absence of changes in mRNA stability.

1988 • 420 citations

The structural and functional properties of thrombospondin

1986 • 333 citations

Identification of another member of the transforming growth factor type beta gene family.

1988 • 326 citations

Cloning and expression of a cDNA coding for the human platelet-derived growth factor receptor: evidence for more than one receptor class.

1988 • 314 citations

Transforming growth factor-beta-induced growth inhibition and cellular hypertrophy in cultured vascular smooth muscle cells.

1988 • 305 citations

The structural and functional properties of thrombospondin

1986 • 261 citations

Control of smooth muscle cell growth by components of the extracellular matrix: autocrine role for thrombospondin.

1986 • 259 citations

Thrombospondin: synthesis and secretion by cells in culture.

1982 • 259 citations

Cell surface thrombospondin is functionally essential for vascular smooth muscle cell proliferation

1988 • 256 citations

Platelet-derived growth factor and heparin-like glycosaminoglycans regulate thrombospondin synthesis and deposition in the matrix by smooth muscle cells.

1985 • 232 citations

Beta-type transforming growth factor specifies organizational behavior in vascular smooth muscle cell cultures.

1987 • 229 citations

Complementary Deoxyribonucleic Acid Cloning of a Messenger Ribonucleic Acid Encoding Transforming Growth Factor β 4 from Chicken Embryo Chondrocytes

1988 • 227 citations

Role of PDGF-A expression in the control of vascular smooth muscle cell growth by transforming growth factor-beta.

1990 • 214 citations

Enhanced jun gene expression is an early genomic response to transforming growth factor beta stimulation.

1989 • 213 citations

Transforming growth factor type beta specifically stimulates synthesis of proteoglycan in human adult arterial smooth muscle cells.

1987 • 198 citations

Coordinate regulation of the levels of type III and type I collagen mRNA in most but not all mouse fibroblasts.

1985 • 194 citations

Identification of a novel transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta 5) mRNA in Xenopus laevis.

1990 • 177 citations

TGF‐β stimulates primary human skin fibroblast DNA synthesis via an autocrine production of PDGF‐related peptides

1989 • 154 citations

Regulation of extracellular matrix RNA levels in cultured smooth muscle cells

1989 • 151 citations

Differential regulation of expression of two platelet-derived growth factor receptor subunits by transforming growth factor-β

1989 • 136 citations

Biphasic effects of type beta transforming growth factor on epidermal growth factor receptors in NRK fibroblasts. Functional consequences for epidermal growth factor-stimulated mitosis.

1985 • 132 citations

Regulated expression of the platelet-derived growth factor A chain gene in microvascular endothelial cells.

1987 • 126 citations

FBR murine osteosarcoma virus II. Nucleotide sequence of the provirus reveals that the genome contains sequences acquired from two cellular genes

1984 • 115 citations

Monoclonal antibodies that recognize calcium-dependent structures of human thrombospondin. Characterization and mapping of their epitopes.

1986 • 111 citations

Separate binding sites for nuclear factor 1 and a CCAAT DNA binding factor in the mouse alpha 2(I) collagen promoter.

1987 • 109 citations

Restricted homology between human alpha 1 type IV and other procollagen chains.

1985 • 78 citations

Nucleotide sequence of transforming human c-siscDNA clones with homology to platelet-derived growth factor

1985 • 68 citations

Comparative endocrinology-paracrinology-autocrinology of human adult large vessel endothelial and smooth muscle cells

1988 • 60 citations

Characterization of the Promoter Region of the Human Thrombospondin Gene

1989 • 54 citations

Density-Dependent Inhibition of Cell Growth by Transforming Growth Factor-β1 in Normal Human Fibroblasts

1988 • 51 citations

Structural analysis and expression of the human thrombospondin gene promoter.

1988 • 48 citations

Opposite effects of monokines (interleukin-1 and tumor necrosis factor) on proliferation and heparin-binding (fibroblast) growth factor binding to human aortic endothelial and smooth muscle cells

1990 • 40 citations

Regulation of α‐smooth muscle actin and other polypeptides in proliferating and density‐arrested vascular smooth muscle cells

1990 • 19 citations

Stimulation by transforming growth factor-β of epidermal growth factor-dependent growth of aged human fibroblasts: Recovery of high affinity EGF receptors and growth stimulation by EGF

1989 • 16 citations