Effect of simvastatin on proliferative nephritis and cell-cycle protein expression

Kidney International, Supplement

Volumn 56, Issue 71, 1999, Pages

  Yoshimura, Ashio ^a   Nemoto, Takashi ^a   Sugenoya, Youichi ^a   Inui, Kiyoko ^a   Watanabe, Susumu ^a   Inoue, Yoshihiko ^a   Sharif, Sakineh ^a   Yokota, Naoko ^a   Uda, Susumu ^a   Morita, Hiroyuki ^a   Ideura, Terukuni ^a  

^a SHOWA UNIVERSITY FUJIGAOKA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anti Thy glomerulonephritis; Glomerular injury; Mesangial proliferative glomerulonephritis; Progression of renal disease

Indexed keywords

CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; SIMVASTATIN; 3 HYDROXY 3 METHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A; ACTIN; COLLAGEN TYPE 4; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE; MEVALONIC ACID; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR B; PROTEIN P27; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL; CELL DIVISION; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; HUMAN; MEMBRANOPROLIFERATIVE GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; MESANGIUM; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; REVIEW; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; CELL CYCLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; ENZYME INHIBITION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MESANGIUM CELL; NEPHRECTOMY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLIFERATIVE GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; TISSUE EXPANSION;

ANIMALS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CELL DIVISION; GLOMERULAR MESANGIUM; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS, MEMBRANOPROLIFERATIVE; HUMANS; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL-COA REDUCTASE INHIBITORS; SIMVASTATIN;

EID: 0033050559     PISSN: 00986577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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