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Recovery and maintenance of nephrin expression in cultured podocytes and identification of HGF as a repressor of nephrin
24 Jan 2007
Abstract excerpt
Cultured podocytes easily lose expression of nephrin. In this report, we developed optimum media for recovery and maintenance of nephrin gene expression in murine podocytes. Using reporter podocytes, we found that activity of the nephrin gene promoter was enhanced by DMEM/F12 or alpha-MEM compared with RPMI-1640. In any of these basal media, addition of 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D(3), all-trans-retinoic acid or...
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