Transforming growth factor-β1 regulates basement membrane formation by alveolar epithelial cells in vitro

Transforming growth factor-beta stimulates the expression of fibronectin and collagen and their incorporation into the extracellular matrix.

1986 • 2,499 citations

Autocrine growth factors and cancer

1985 • 1,462 citations

Transforming growth factor beta modulates the expression of collagenase and metalloproteinase inhibitor.

1987 • 1,243 citations

Regulation of Cell Adhesion Receptors by Transforming Growth Factor-β

1989 • 672 citations

Macromolecular organization of basement membranes

1996 • 661 citations

Independent Regulation of Collagenase, 72-kDa Progelatinase, and Metalloendoproteinase Inhibitor Expression in Human Fibroblasts by Transforming Growth Factor-β

1989 • 649 citations

Transforming growth factor beta regulates the expression and structure of extracellular matrix chondroitin/dermatan sulfate proteoglycans.

1988 • 418 citations

Transforming growth factor beta (TGF-?) in inflammation: A cause and a cure

1992 • 417 citations

The presence of heparan sulfate proteoglycans in the neuritic plaques and congophilic angiopathy in Alzheimer's disease.

1988 • 410 citations

Pathobiology of pulmonary fibrosis

1990 • 326 citations

Transforming growth factor-beta 1 up-regulates type IV collagenase expression in cultured human keratinocytes

1991 • 307 citations

Relating matrix metalloproteinase structure to function: Why the “hemopexin” domain?

1997 • 300 citations

Production of extracellular matrix by glomerular epithelial cells is regulated by transforming growth factor-β1

1992 • 248 citations

Cellular origin of the dermal‐epidermal basement membrane

1993 • 244 citations

A histologically distinctive interstitial pneumonia induced by overexpression of the interleukin 6, transforming growth factor beta 1, or platelet-derived growth factor B gene.

1995 • 140 citations

Increased expression of transforming growth factor beta isoforms (beta 1, beta 2, beta 3) in bleomycin-induced pulmonary fibrosis.

1995 • 135 citations

Basement-Membrane Stromal Relationships: Interactions between Collagen Fibrils and the Lamina Densa

1997 • 129 citations

Stimulation of rat endothelial cell transforming growth factor-beta production by bleomycin.

1991 • 98 citations

Synthetic fibronectin peptides interrupt inflammatory cell infiltration in transforming growth factor beta 1 knockout mice.

1994 • 96 citations

Regulation of transglutaminase type II by transforming growth factor-beta 1 in normal and transformed human epidermal keratinocytes.

1990 • 95 citations

Differential Modulation of Integrin Receptors and Extracellular Matrix Laminin by Transforming Growth Factor-β1 in Rat Alveolar Epithelial Cells

1995 • 72 citations

Transforming growth factor beta alters the expression of heparan sulfate proteoglycan in human colon carcinoma cells.

1990 • 70 citations

Dual and asynchronous deposition of laminin chains at the epithelial-mesenchymal interface in the gut

1992 • 70 citations

Induction of extracellular matrix gene expression in normal human keratinocytes by transforming growth factor β is altered by cellular differentiation

1991 • 60 citations

Protein Cross-linking Mediated by Tissue Transglutaminase Correlates with the Maturation of Extracellular Matrices During Lung Development

1997 • 53 citations

SV40T-immortalized lung alveolar epithelial cells display posttranscriptional regulation of proliferation-related genes

1991 • 42 citations

Assembly of Basement Membrane in Vitro by Cooperation between Alveolar Epithelial Cells and Pulmonary Fibroblasts.

1997 • 41 citations

Entactin expression by rat lung and rat alveolar epithelial cells.

1996 • 38 citations

Composition of extracellular matrix of type II pulmonary epithelial cells in primary culture

1995 • 23 citations

Enhanced alveolar type II cell growth on a pulmonary extracellular matrix over fibroblasts

1997 • 11 citations