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Potential biological role of transforming growth factor-beta1 in human congenital kidney malformations.
The American journal of pathology - 1 Nov 2000
Yang S P, Woolf A S, Yuan H T, Scott R J, Risdon R A, O'Hare M J, Winyard P J
Abstract excerpt
Transformations between epithelial and mesenchymal cells are widespread during normal development and adult disease, and transforming growth factor-beta1 (TGF-beta1) has been implicated in some of these phenotypic switches. Dysplastic kidneys are a common cause of chronic kidney failure in young children and result from perturbed epithelial-mesenchymal interactions. In this study, we found that components of the...
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