Transforming Growth Factor-β and the Kidney Revisited: Introduction

Seminars in Nephrology

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 225-227

  Lin, Herbert Y ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE; RETINOID DERIVATIVE; RETINOL DERIVATIVE; SMAD PROTEIN; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA RECEPTOR 2; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA2;

AGING; BIOENERGY; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY; EDITORIAL; FIBROBLAST; HUMAN; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; KIDNEY DEVELOPMENT; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY FIBROSIS; KIDNEY TUBULE EPITHELIUM; MITOCHONDRIAL ENERGY TRANSFER; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLIFERATIVE GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; TUBULOINTERSTITIAL FIBROSIS;

HUMANS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY DISEASES; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

EID: 84864138631     PISSN: 02709295     EISSN: 15584488     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.semnephrol.2012.04.010     Document Type: Editorial

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