Cholesteatoma fibroblasts promote epithelial cell proliferation through overexpression of epiregulin.

To investigate whether keratinocytes proliferate in response to epiregulin produced by subepithelial fibroblasts derived from middle ear cholesteatoma. Tissue samples were obtained from patients undergoing tympanoplasty. The quantitative polymerase chain reaction and immunohistochemistry were perfor...

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Main Authors: Mamoru Yoshikawa, Hiromi Kojima, Yuichiro Yaguchi, Naoko Okada, Hirohisa Saito, Hiroshi Moriyama
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/23826119/pdf/?tool=EBI