Renal fibrosis: New insights into the pathogenesis and therapeutics

Kidney International

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 213-217

  Liu, Youhua ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

EMT; HGF; Renal fibrosis; Smad; TGF beta

Indexed keywords

ALITRETINOIN; CALCITRIOL; OSTEOGENIC PROTEIN 1; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR GAMMA AGONIST; PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR INHIBITOR; SCATTER FACTOR; SMAD PROTEIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME DEGRADATION; FIBROBLAST; FIBROGENESIS; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY FIBROSIS; MESANGIUM; MESENCHYME; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WOUND HEALING IMPAIRMENT;

ANIMALS; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEINS; FIBROSIS; GLOMERULOSCLEROSIS, FOCAL SEGMENTAL; HEPATOCYTE GROWTH FACTOR; HUMANS; KIDNEY; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE 9; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMAD PROTEINS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

EID: 33644638349     PISSN: 00852538     EISSN: 15231755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.ki.5000054     Document Type: Short Survey

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