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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
SUBMITTER: Neeraj KUMAR
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-38227 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Khan Imran I Kumar Neeraj N Pant Ila I Narra Sivakrishna S Kondaiah Paturu P
PloS one 20121219 12
Oral submucous fibrosis (OSF) is a chronic inflammatory disease characterized by the accumulation of excess collagen, and areca nut chewing has been proposed as an important etiological factor for disease manifestation. Activation of transforming growth factor-β signaling has been postulated as the main causative event for increased collagen production in OSF. Oral epithelium plays important roles in OSF, and arecoline has been shown to induce TGF-β in epithelial cells. In an attempt to understa ...[more]