Production and activation of hepatocyte growth factor in acute renal failure

Renal Failure

Volumn 23, Issue 3-4, 2001, Pages 597-603

  Sugimura, K ^a   Goto, T ^a   Tsuchida, K ^a   Takemoto, Y ^a   Kim, T ^a   Kishimoto, T ^a  

^a OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute renal failure; Hepatocyte growth factor; Processing

Indexed keywords

GLYCEROL; MESSENGER RNA; SCATTER FACTOR; SCATTER FACTOR RECEPTOR;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRUSH SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONTENT; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RAT;

ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR COAGULATION; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HEPATOCYTE GROWTH FACTOR; HUMANS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY FAILURE, ACUTE; LIVER; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPLEEN; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0034915561     PISSN: 0886022X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/JDI-100104741     Document Type: Conference Paper

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