The cardiotonic steroid hormone marinobufagenin induces renal fibrosis: Implication of epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition

American Journal of Physiology - Renal Physiology

Volumn 296, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Fedorova, Larisa V ^a   Raju, Vanamala ^a   El Okdi, Nasser ^a   Shidyak, Amjad ^a   Kennedy, David J ^a   Vetteth, Sandeep ^a   Giovannucci, David R ^a   Bagrov, Alexei Y ^b   Fedorova, Olga V ^b   Shapiro, Joseph I ^a   Malhotra, Deepak ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF OHIO   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiotonic steroid hormone; Na+ K+ ATPase; Ouabain; Transcription factor Snail

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE (POTASSIUM SODIUM); COLLAGEN TYPE 1; FIBRONECTIN; MARINOBUFAGENIN; PROTEIN; STEROID HORMONE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SNAIL; UVOMORULIN; VIMENTIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CELL MOTILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FIBROBLAST; GLOMERULOPATHY; ION TRANSPORT; KIDNEY EPITHELIUM; KIDNEY FIBROSIS; KIDNEY INTERSTITIUM; KIDNEY TUBULE EPITHELIUM; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT;

EID: 65949094589     PISSN: 1931857X     EISSN: 15221466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajprenal.90605.2008     Document Type: Article

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