Twist: A new link from hypoxia to fibrosis

Kidney International

Volumn 75, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1255-1256

  Bechtel, Wibke ^a   Zeisberg, Michael ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TWIST; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HYPOXIA; KIDNEY EPITHELIUM; KIDNEY FIBROSIS; KIDNEY INTERSTITIUM; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION;

EID: 66749158636     PISSN: 00852538     EISSN: 15231755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ki.2009.102     Document Type: Note

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