Renal tubular epithelial cell injury, apoptosis and inflammation are involved in melamine-related kidney stone formation

Urological Research

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 717-723

  Lu, Xiuli ^a,b   Gao, Bing ^b   Wang, Youliang ^a   Liu, Zehui ^a   Yasui, Takahiro ^b,c   Liu, Ping ^b   Liu, Jian ^b   Emmanuel, Newton ^b   Zhu, Qiwen ^b   Xiao, Chunling ^b  

^a LIAONING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHENYANG MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

^c NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Cell injury; Inflammation; Kidney stone; Melamine

Indexed keywords

CYANURIC ACID; MELAMINE; MESSENGER RNA; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GLOMERULUS; HENLE LOOP; IN VIVO STUDY; INFLAMMATION; KIDNEY COLLECTING TUBULE; KIDNEY CORTEX; KIDNEY MEDULLA; KIDNEY PROXIMAL TUBULE; KIDNEY TUBULE CELL; KIDNEY TUBULE NECROSIS; LYSOSOME; MALE; NEPHROLITHIASIS; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STONE FORMATION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; INFLAMMATION; KIDNEY CALCULI; KIDNEY TUBULES; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TRIAZINES;

EID: 84874113652     PISSN: 03005623     EISSN: 14340879     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00240-012-0507-x     Document Type: Article

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