Rat mesangial cells exhibit sex-specific profibrotic and proinflammatory phenotypes

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1753-1758

  Pawluczyk, Izabella Z A ^a,b   Tan, Eddie K C ^a,b   Harris, Kevin P G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b LEICESTER GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

17 estradiol; Cytokines; Fibronectin; Mesangial cells; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; FIBRONECTIN; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; TESTOSTERONE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL DAMAGE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DOWN REGULATION; FEMALE; MACROPHAGE; MALE; MESANGIUM CELL; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; FIBRONECTINS; FIBROSIS; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; INTERLEUKIN-1BETA; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; MESANGIAL CELLS; PHENOTYPE; RATS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TESTOSTERONE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 67651113994     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfn714     Document Type: Article

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