Renotropic role and therapeutic potential of HGF in the kidney

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 17, Issue SUPPL. 9, 2002, Pages 59-61

  Matsumoto, Kunio ^a   Nakamura, Toshikazu ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute renal failure; c Met; Chronic renal failure; HGF; Renal regeneration; Renotropin

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; MERCURIC CHLORIDE; RECOMBINANT SCATTER FACTOR; SCATTER FACTOR; TACROLIMUS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIUM CELL; HUMAN; KIDNEY EPITHELIUM; KIDNEY FIBROSIS; MITOGENESIS; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TISSUE REGENERATION;

EID: 0036379094     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/17.suppl_9.59     Document Type: Article

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