Perspectives on blockade of TGFβ overexpression

Kidney International

Volumn 69, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1713-1714

  Huang, Y ^a   Border, W A ^a   Noble, N A ^a,b  

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

^b Fibrosis Research Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; SKI PROTEIN; SMAD PROTEIN; SNON PROTEIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; ONCOPROTEIN; SKI PROTEIN, MOUSE; SKIL PROTEIN, MOUSE; SMAD2 PROTEIN; SMAD2 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HUMAN; KIDNEY FIBROSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTO ONCOGENE; RECEPTOR BLOCKING; REPRESSOR GENE; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKI GENE; SNON GENE; UNILATERAL URETER OBSTRUCTION MODEL; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; DRUG ANTAGONISM; FIBROSIS; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOUSE; NOTE; PATHOLOGY; URETER OBSTRUCTION;

ANIMALS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FIBROSIS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; SMAD2 PROTEIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; URETERAL OBSTRUCTION;

EID: 33646712129     PISSN: 00852538     EISSN: 15231755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.ki.5000260     Document Type: Note

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