Expression of gremlin, a bone morphogenetic protein antagonist, in glomerular crescents of pauci-immune glomerulonephritis

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1882-1890

  Mezzano, Sergio ^a   Droguett, Alejandra ^a   Eugenia, M Burgos ^a   Aros, Claudio ^a   Ardiles, Leopoldo ^a   Flores, Claudio ^a   Carpio, Daniel ^a   Carvajal, Gisselle ^a   Ruiz Ortega, Marta ^b   Egido, Jesús ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUSTRAL DE CHILE   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

BMP 7 antagonist; Crescentic glomerulonephritis; Epithelial mesenchymal transition (EMT); Gremlin; Smad; TGF

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; BINDING PROTEIN; CD68 ANTIGEN; CONNECTIVE TISSUE GROWTH FACTOR; CYCLINE; CYTOKERATIN; GREMLIN; MESSENGER RNA; OSTEOGENIC PROTEIN 1; SMAD2 PROTEIN; SYNAPTOPODIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UVOMORULIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL INFILTRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNE COMPLEX NEPHRITIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY CELL; KIDNEY FIBROSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MONOCYTE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INDUCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; SOUTHWESTERN BLOTTING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

BLOTTING, WESTERN; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEINS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLS, CULTURED; FIBROSIS; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; KIDNEY GLOMERULUS; KIDNEY TUBULES; MONOCYTES; RNA, MESSENGER; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

EID: 34547851691     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfm145     Document Type: Article

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