Connective tissue growth factor induces tubular epithelial to mesenchymal transition through the activation of canonical Wnt signaling in vitro

Renal Failure

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 129-135

  Yang, Zhiying ^a   Sun, Lina ^a   Nie, Huibin ^a   Liu, Haiying ^a   Liu, Gang ^a   Guan, Guangju ^a  

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Chronic kidney disease; Connective tissue growth factor; Epithelial to mesenchymal transition; Wnt signaling pathway

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; BETA CATENIN; CONNECTIVE TISSUE GROWTH FACTOR; GLYCERALDEHYDE 3 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; GLYCOGEN SYNTHASE KINASE 3BETA; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR RELATED PROTEIN 6; UVOMORULIN; DKK1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; GLYCOGEN SYNTHASE KINASE 3; GLYCOGEN SYNTHASE KINASE 3 BETA; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IN VITRO STUDY; KIDNEY FIBROSIS; KIDNEY TUBULE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WESTERN BLOTTING; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY; CELL LINE; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; EPITHELIUM CELL; FIBROSIS; KIDNEY PROXIMAL TUBULE; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

BETA CATENIN; CELL LINE; CONNECTIVE TISSUE GROWTH FACTOR; EPITHELIAL CELLS; EPITHELIAL-MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; FIBROSIS; GLYCOGEN SYNTHASE KINASE 3; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; KIDNEY TUBULES, PROXIMAL; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR-RELATED PROTEIN-6; PHOSPHORYLATION; RENAL INSUFFICIENCY, CHRONIC; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY;

EID: 84919435928     PISSN: 0886022X     EISSN: 15256049     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/0886022X.2014.967699     Document Type: Article

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