Relationship between alpha-smooth muscle actin expression and fibrotic changes in human kidney

Experimental Nephrology

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 241-247

  Boukhalfa, Ghania ^a   Desmoulière, Alexis ^b,c   Rondeau, Eric ^a   Gabbiani, Giulio ^b   Sraer, Jean Daniel ^a  

^a HÔPITAL TENON   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Actin Glomerulosclerosis; Fibrosis; Kidney

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ACTIN; CYCLOSPORIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G2A; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; FEMALE; FIBROGENESIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GLOMERULOSCLEROSIS; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY FIBROSIS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MYOFIBROBLAST; NEPHROTOXICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACTINS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; CHILD; CREATININE; CYCLOSPORINE; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MICE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SMOOTH;

EID: 0029742425     PISSN: 10187782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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