Glomerular expression of connexin 40 and connexin 43 in rat experimental glomerulonephritis

Clinical and Experimental Nephrology

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 191-204

  Morioka, Tetsuo ^a,b   Okada, Shinichi ^a,c   Nameta, Masaaki ^a   Kamal, Fadia ^a   Yanakieva Georgieva, Nadia T ^a   Yao, Jian ^d   Sato, Ayako ^a   Piao, Honglan ^a   Oite, Takashi ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL AND DENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b Shinrakuen Hospital   (Japan)

^c TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anti Thy1.1; Glomerulonephritis; Mesangial cells

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 40; CONNEXIN 43; MESSENGER RNA; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN;

ALLERGIC GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; GLOMERULUS; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MALE; MESANGIUM CELL; NONHUMAN; PODOCYTE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; METABOLISM; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WISTAR RAT; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CONNEXIN 43; CONNEXINS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; KIDNEY GLOMERULUS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 84891410259     PISSN: 13421751     EISSN: 14377799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10157-012-0687-2     Document Type: Article

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