SMAD-Independent Down-Regulation of Caveolin-1 by TGF-β: Effects on Proliferation and Survival of Myofibroblasts

• Yan Y. Sanders ,

  ¶‡ These authors contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, 35294, United States of America

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• Zongbin Cui ,

  Current address: Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, HuBei, China

  ¶‡ These authors contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48109, United States of America

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• Claude Jourdan Le Saux,

  Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, 78229, United States of America

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• Jeffrey C. Horowitz,

  Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48109, United States of America

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• Sunad Rangarajan,

  Affiliation Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, 35294, United States of America

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• Ashish Kurundkar,

  Affiliation Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, 35294, United States of America

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• Veena B. Antony,

  Affiliation Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, 35294, United States of America

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• Victor J. Thannickal

  * E-mail: vjthan@uab.edu

  Affiliation Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, 35294, United States of America

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