Hepatocyte growth factor counteracts transforming growth factor-beta1, through attenuation of connective tissue growth factor induction, and prevents renal fibrogenesis in 5/6 nephrectomized mice.

The FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 268-270

  Inoue, Tsutomu ^a   Okada, Hirokazu ^a   Kobayashi, Tatsuya ^a   Watanabe, Yusuke ^a   Kanno, Yoshihiko ^a   Kopp, Jeffrey B ^a   Nishida, Takashi ^a   Takigawa, Masaharu ^a   Ueno, Munehisa ^a   Nakamura, Toshikazu ^a   Suzuki, Hiromichi ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN TYPE 1; CONNECTIVE TISSUE GROWTH FACTOR; IMMEDIATE EARLY PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; SCATTER FACTOR; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; TGFB1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; COCULTURE; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; FIBROBLAST; FIBROSIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY PROXIMAL TUBULE; MALE; METABOLISM; MOUSE; NEPHRECTOMY; PATHOLOGY; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; COLLAGEN TYPE I; FIBROBLASTS; FIBROSIS; GENE EXPRESSION; HEPATOCYTE GROWTH FACTOR; IMMEDIATE-EARLY PROTEINS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY TUBULES, PROXIMAL; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEPHRECTOMY; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1;

EID: 0037315742     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15306860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1096/fj.02-0442fje     Document Type: Article

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