Angiotensin II activates the Smad pathway during epithelial mesenchymal transdifferentiation

Kidney International

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 585-595

  Carvajal, Gisselle ^a,b   Rodríguez Vita, Juan ^a   Rodrigues Díez, Raquel ^a   Sánchez López, Elsa ^a   Rupérez, Mónica ^a   Cartier, Cecile ^d   Esteban, Vanesa ^a   Ortiz, Alberto ^a   Egido, Jesús ^a   Mezzano, Sergio A ^b   Ruiz Ortega, Marta ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUSTRAL DE CHILE   (Chile)

^c Hospital UniversitarioFundación Jiménez Díaz   (Spain)

^d Fundación Jiménez Díaz ^*

Author keywords

Angiotensin; Fibrosis; Smad; TGF ; Tubuloepithelial cells

Indexed keywords

ANGIOTENSIN II; MESSENGER RNA; SMAD PROTEIN; SMAD2 PROTEIN; SMAD3 PROTEIN; SMAD7 PROTEIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIUM CELL; EXPERIMENTAL RAT; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; KIDNEY FIBROSIS; MALE; MESENCHYME; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; UPREGULATION;

ANGIOTENSIN II; ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FIBROSIS; HUMANS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY DISEASES; KIDNEY TUBULES; MAP KINASE SIGNALING SYSTEM; MESODERM; RATS; RECEPTOR, ANGIOTENSIN, TYPE 1; RENIN-ANGIOTENSIN SYSTEM; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMAD PROTEINS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

EID: 49749105574     PISSN: 00852538     EISSN: 15231755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ki.2008.213     Document Type: Article

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