Kallikreins and lupus nephritis

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Volumn 119, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 768-771

  Ponticelli, Claudio ^a   Meroni, Pier Luigi ^b  

^a HUMANITAS CLINICAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 12; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C1Q; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; GLOMERULUS BASEMENT MEMBRANE ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; KALLIKREIN; KALLIKREIN 1; KALLIKREIN 3; KININ; KININASE; KININOGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

COMPLEMENT ACTIVATION; DISEASE MODEL; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GOODPASTURE SYNDROME; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INDEL MUTATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; KALLIKREIN KININ SYSTEM; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY ISCHEMIA; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS NEPHRITIS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NEPHRITIS; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RENAL PROTECTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; VASODILATATION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETICS; KIDNEY; MOUSE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; KALLIKREIN-KININ SYSTEM; KALLIKREINS; KIDNEY; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; LUPUS NEPHRITIS; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 65249183081     PISSN: 00219738     EISSN: 15588238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1172/JCI38786     Document Type: Note

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