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Renal fibroblast-like cells in Goodpasture syndrome rats.
Kidney international - 1 Aug 2001
Okada H, Inoue T, Kanno Y, Kobayashi T, Ban S, Kalluri R, Suzuki H
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The extent of renal fibrosis is the best predictor for functional outcomes in a variety of progressive renal diseases. Interstitial fibroblast-like cells (FbLCs) are presumably involved in the fibrotic process. However, such FbLCs have never been well characterized in the kidney. METHODS: We characterized renal FbLCs in the nephritic kidney (in which the number of FbLCs and extracellular matrix...
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