Hepatocyte growth factor in renal regeneration, renal disease and potential therapeutics

Current Opinion in Nephrology and Hypertension

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 395-402

  Matsumoto, Kunio ^a   Mizuno, Shinya ^a   Nakamura, Toshikazu ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SCATTER FACTOR;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; CELL REGENERATION; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; KIDNEY CELL; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY FIBROSIS; MESANGIUM CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; HEPATOCYTE GROWTH FACTOR; HUMANS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY DISEASES; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; REGENERATION; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

EID: 0033936062     PISSN: 10624821     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00041552-200007000-00011     Document Type: Review

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