Possible mechanisms explaining the tendency towards interstitial fibrosis in aristolochic acid-induced acute tubular necrosis

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 445-456

  Yang, Li ^a   Li, Xiaomei ^a   Wang, Haiyan ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Acute tubular necrosis; Aristolochic acid; Chinese herb; Fibrosis; PTC

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ARISTOLOCHIC ACID; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CHINESE DRUG; COLLAGEN TYPE 3; COLLAGEN TYPE 4; CONNECTIVE TISSUE GROWTH FACTOR; CYCLINE; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; FIBRONECTIN; GUANMUTONG; PEROXIDE; STREPTAVIDIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASCULOTROPIN; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

ACUTE KIDNEY TUBULE NECROSIS; ADULT; ARTICLE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CAPILLARY; CAPILLARY WALL; CELL GRANULE; CELL SWELLING; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CELL VACUOLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMALE; GLOMERULUS CAPILLARY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY FIBROSIS; KIDNEY INTERSTITIUM; KIDNEY TUBULE; KIDNEY TUBULE BASEMENT MEMBRANE; MALE; MEMBRANOPROLIFERATIVE GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TISSUE REPAIR;

ACTINS; ADULT; ARISTOLOCHIC ACIDS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BIOPSY; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTORS; FIBRONECTINS; FIBROSIS; HUMANS; IMMEDIATE-EARLY PROTEINS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; KIDNEY GLOMERULUS; KIDNEY TUBULAR NECROSIS, ACUTE; KIDNEY TUBULES; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MIDDLE AGED; MUTAGENS; PROLIFERATING CELL NUCLEAR ANTIGEN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A;

EID: 33846678148     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfl556     Document Type: Article

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