Expression of smooth muscle cell phenotype by rat mesangial cells in immune complex nephritis: α-Smooth muscle actin is a marker of mesangial cell proliferation

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 1991, Pages 847-858

  Johnson, Richard J ^a,b   Iida, Hiroyuki ^a   Alpers, Charles E ^a   Majesky, Mark W ^a   Schwartz, Stephen M ^a   Pritzl, Pam ^a   Gordon, Kathy ^a   Gown, Allen M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Actin; Cytoskeleton; Mesangial proliferative glomerulonephritis

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; COMPLEMENT; RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; MESANGIUM CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER;

ACTINS; ANIMAL; ANTIGENS, SURFACE; ANTIGENS, THY-1; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOOD PLATELETS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; COMPLEMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GLOMERULAR MESANGIUM; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; IMMUNE COMPLEX DISEASES; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBES; RATS; RNA, MESSENGER; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0025732353     PISSN: 00219738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1172/JCI115089     Document Type: Article

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