Hepatocyte growth factor: Renotropic role and potential therapeutics for renal diseases

Kidney International

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 2023-2038

  Matsumoto, Kunio ^a   Nakamura, Toshikazu ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute renal failure; Cell regeneration; Chronic renal failure; Morphogenesis; Renal fibrosis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CISPLATIN; CYCLOSPORIN A; GENE PRODUCT; MESSENGER RNA; RECOMBINANT SCATTER FACTOR; SCATTER FACTOR; SCATTER FACTOR RECEPTOR; TACROLIMUS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SYNTHESIS; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY FIBROSIS; KIDNEY TUBULE CELL; MITOGENESIS; MOUSE; NEPHROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTO ONCOGENE; RAT; REVIEW; TISSUE INJURY; TISSUE REGENERATION; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0035023230     PISSN: 00852538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1755.2001.0590062023.x     Document Type: Review

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