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Cellular responses to protein overload: key event in renal disease progression.
Current opinion in nephrology and hypertension - 1 Jan 2004
Zoja Carla, Benigni Ariela, Remuzzi Giuseppe
Abstract excerpt
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Insight into the mechanisms underlying the progression of chronic proteinuric nephropathies has attracted the interest of the renal community in the last two decades. Systemic hypertension, proteinuria, cytokines and growth factors, and reactive oxygen species have all been implicated. Reviewed here are the determinants of tubulointerstitial injury; the focus is on protein ultrafiltration and...
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