Snail, a transcriptional regulator, represses nephrin expression in glomerular epithelial cells of nephrotic rats

Laboratory Investigation

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 273-283

  Matsui, Isao ^a   Ito, Takahito ^a   Kurihara, Hidetake ^b   Imai, Enyu ^a   Ogihara, Toshio ^a   Hori, Masatsugu ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

EMT; GSK3; Nephrin; Podocyte; Snail; Wnt

Indexed keywords

GLYCOGEN SYNTHASE KINASE 3; NEPHRIN; PUROMYCIN AMINONUCLEOSIDE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SNAIL; WNT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; DOWN REGULATION; E BOX ELEMENT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INACTIVATION; ENZYME INHIBITION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GLOMERULUS EPITHELIUM; MALE; NEPHROSIS; NONHUMAN; PODOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEINURIA; RAT; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UPREGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; DNA PRIMERS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; KIDNEY GLOMERULUS; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEPHROSIS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 33847671000     PISSN: 00236837     EISSN: 15300307     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/labinvest.3700518     Document Type: Article

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