Transdifferentiation: A new angle on renal fibrosis

Experimental Nephrology

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 267-270

  Strutz, Frank ^a   Müller, Gerhard A ^a   Neilson, Eric G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Differentiated state; Fibroblast; Fibrogenesis; Transdifferentiation; Tubular epithelial cell

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; KIDNEY FIBROSIS; KIDNEY TUBULE EPITHELIUM; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEINS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EPITHELIUM; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; FIBROSIS; HUMANS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY DISEASES; KIDNEY TUBULES; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

EID: 0029806531     PISSN: 10187782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Short Survey

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