Expression of the transcriptional regulator snail1 in kidney transplants displaying epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition features

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 29, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 2136-2144

  Xu Dubois, Yi Chun ^a   Galichon, Pierre ^a   Brocheriou, Isabelle ^a,b   Baugey, Edith ^a   Morichon, Romain ^b   Jouanneau, Chantal ^a   Ouali, Nacera ^a   Rondeau, Eric ^a   Hertig, Alexandre ^a  

^a HÔPITAL TENON   (France)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Early fibrotic markers; EMT; Kidney; Transcriptional factors; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; SMAD2 PROTEIN; SMAD3 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SNAIL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SNAIL1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ZEB1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIMENTIN; SMAD2 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; FEMALE; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY GRAFT; KIDNEY TUBULE CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEINURIA; RENAL GRAFT DYSFUNCTION; BIOPSY; BIOSYNTHESIS; EPITHELIUM CELL; FIBROSIS; GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; KIDNEY TUBULE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

BIOPSY; EPITHELIAL CELLS; EPITHELIAL-MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; KIDNEY TUBULES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SMAD2 PROTEIN;

EID: 84929089804     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gft279     Document Type: Article

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