Glial fibrillary acidic protein-positive cells of the kidney are capable of raising a protective biochemical barrier similar to astrocytes: Expression of metallothionein in podocytes

Anatomical Record

Volumn 267, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 296-306

  Buniatian, Gayane Hrachia ^a   Hartmann, Hans Jürgen ^a   Traub, Peter ^b   Wiesinger, Heinrich ^a   Albinus, Margitta ^a   Nagel, Wolfgang ^c   Shoeman, Robert ^b   Mecke, Dieter ^a   Weser, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^c APALEXO Biotechnologie GmbH Immunotherapy   (Germany)

Author keywords

Blood tissue interactions; Glomerular podocytes; Metallothionein; Myofibroblast; Protective function; Smooth muscle alpha actin; Vascular permeability

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ACTIN; ANTISERUM; CADMIUM; DESMIN; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; LYSINE; METALLOTHIONEIN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; TUMOR PROTEIN; XENOBIOTIC AGENT; ZINC; ACTIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BLOOD VESSEL PERMEABILITY; CELL INTERACTION; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FIBROBLAST; GLOMERULUS BASEMENT MEMBRANE; HOMEOSTASIS; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; KIDNEY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PODOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; STELLATE CELL; ULTRAFILTRATION; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CAPILLARY PERMEABILITY; CELL CULTURE; CYTOLOGY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GLOMERULUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; VASCULARIZATION;

ACTINS; ANIMAL; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ASTROCYTES; CAPILLARY PERMEABILITY; CELLS, CULTURED; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KIDNEY GLOMERULUS; METALLOTHIONEIN; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; ANIMALS;

EID: 0036667520     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.10115     Document Type: Article

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