Glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) is expressed in the human kidney and is a growth factor for human mesangial cells

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 589-595

  Orth, Stephan R ^a,b   Ritz, Eberhard ^a   Suter Crazzolara, Clemens ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b Sektion Nephrologie   (Germany)

Author keywords

Glial cell line derived neurotrophic factor; Glomerulosclerosis; Kidney; Mesangial cell proliferation

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; COLLAGEN; COLLAGENASE; GLIAL CELL LINE DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; GROWTH FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA; METHIONINE; PROLINE; RECEPTOR; THYMIDINE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TRITIUM;

ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; CELL GROWTH; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SYNTHESIS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GLIA CELL; GLOMERULOSCLEROSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERPLASIA; HYPERTROPHY; KIDNEY; KIDNEY CORTEX; KIDNEY DEVELOPMENT; KIDNEY MEDULLA; MESANGIUM CELL; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 0034050323     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/15.5.589     Document Type: Article

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