Cloning of rodent megsin revealed its up-regulation in mesangioproliferative nephritis

Kidney International

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 641-652

  Nangaku, Masaomi ^a,b   Miyata, Toshio ^a,b   Suzuki, Daisuke ^a,b   Umezono, Tomoya ^a,b   Hashimoto, Tsutomu ^a,b   Wada, Takehiko ^a,b   Yagi, Mikio ^a,b   Nagano, Nobuo ^a,b   Inagi, Reiko ^a,b   Kurokawa, Kiyoshi ^a,b  

^a TOKAI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anti Thy 1 nephritis; Cell survival; Extracellular matrix; Glomerulonephritis; Glomerulosclerosis; Mesangial cells; Mesangial hypercellularity; Serpin

Indexed keywords

MEGSIN; MESSENGER RNA; SERINE PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; CONFERENCE PAPER; GLOMERULOSCLEROSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MEMBRANOPROLIFERATIVE GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RNA ANALYSIS;

EID: 0034912684     PISSN: 00852538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1755.2001.060002641.x     Document Type: Article

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