Pivotal role of pericytes in kidney fibrosis

Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 467-473

  Kida, Yujiro ^a   Duffield, Jeremy S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Capillary rarefaction; Chronic kidney diseases; Endothelial cells; Epithelial to mesenchymal transition (EMT); Fibrosis; Kidney injury; Kidney pericytes; Myofibroblasts; Peritubular capillary

Indexed keywords

CELL ACTIVATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; GENE MAPPING; GLOMERULUS CAPILLARY; HUMAN; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; KIDNEY; KIDNEY FIBROSIS; KIDNEY INJURY; KIDNEY INTERSTITIUM; KIDNEY TUBULE; MESANGIUM CELL; MICROVASCULARIZATION; MYOFIBROBLAST; NEPHRON; NONHUMAN; PERICYTE; REVIEW; SCAR FORMATION; STEM CELL; STROMA;

EID: 79959743981     PISSN: 03051870     EISSN: 14401681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1681.2011.05531.x     Document Type: Review

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