%0 Journal Article %T circHECTD1 promotes the silica-induced pulmonary endothelial¨Cmesenchymal transition via HECTD1 %A Bing Han %A Huifang Guo %A Jie Chao %A Jing Wang %A Shencun Fang %A Wei Luo %A Wei Zhang %A Weiping Xie %A Yusi Cheng %A Zewei Zhou %J Archive of "Cell Death & Disease". %D 2018 %R 10.1038/s41419-018-0432-1 %X a Representative images of Sirius red staining in lung sections show the amount of Sirius red-stained collagen associated that co-localized with Tie2-GFP in mice treated with SiO2. b Representative images of immunohistochemical staining show the co-localization of TEK-GFP with ¦Á-SMA/Acta2 in TEK-GFP 287 Sato/JNju mice treated with SiO2, indicating that SiO2 induced the EndMT. c Representative western blot showing the effects of SiO2 (50£¿¦̀g/cm2) on levels of the mesenchymal markers Col I/COL1A1, Col III/COL3A1 and ¦Á-SMA/Acta2. d Densitometric analyses of five separate experiments show that SiO2 increases Col I/COL1A1, Col III/COL3A1 and ¦Á-SMA/Acta2 expression in a time-dependent manner. *P£¿<£¿0.05 vs. the expression of the corresponding protein at 0£¿h. e Representative western blot showing the effects of SiO2 (50£¿¦̀g/cm2) on levels of the endothelial markers VE-Cad/Cdh-5 and PECAM 1/CD31. f Densitometric analyses of five separate experiments show that SiO2 decreases VE-Cad/Cdh-5 and PECAM 1/CD31 expression in a time-dependent manner. *P£¿<£¿0.05 vs. corresponding protein at 0£¿ %U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5852113/