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Michael B. Sporn

Researcher at Dartmouth College

Publications -  561
Citations -  96644

Michael B. Sporn is an academic researcher from Dartmouth College. The author has contributed to research in topics: Transforming growth factor & Transforming growth factor beta. The author has an hindex of 157, co-authored 559 publications receiving 94605 citations. Previous affiliations of Michael B. Sporn include Cornell University & Reata Pharmaceuticals.

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Transforming growth factor type beta: rapid induction of fibrosis and angiogenesis in vivo and stimulation of collagen formation in vitro.

TL;DR: Further data are obtained to support a role for TGF-beta as an intrinsic mediator of collagen formation: conditioned media obtained from activated human tonsillar T lymphocytes contain greatly elevated levels of T GF-beta compared tomedia obtained from unactivated lymphocytes.
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Transforming growth factor beta 1 null mutation in mice causes excessive inflammatory response and early death.

TL;DR: Pathological examination revealed an excessive inflammatory response with massive infiltration of lymphocytes and macrophages in many organs, but primarily in heart and lungs, which suggests a prominent role for TGF-beta 1 in homeostatic regulation of immune cell proliferation and extravasation into tissues.
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Human transforming growth factor-beta complementary DNA sequence and expression in normal and transformed cells.

TL;DR: The cDNA sequence indicates that the 112-amino acid monomeric form of the natural TGF-β homodimer is derived proteolytically from a much longer precursor polypeptide which may be secreted.
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Production of transforming growth factor beta by human T lymphocytes and its potential role in the regulation of T cell growth.

TL;DR: TGF-beta may be an important antigen-nonspecific regulator of human T cell proliferation, and important in T cell interaction with other cell types whose cellular functions are modulated by TGF- beta.
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Transforming growth factor-beta in human platelets. Identification of a major storage site, purification, and characterization.

TL;DR: The results show that platelets contain a type beta transforming growth factor, which is distinct from platelet-derived growth factor and elicits 50% of its maximal biological response at concentrations less than 5 x 10(-12) M.