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Differentiated phenotype of glomerular mesangial cells in nodular culture.
The American journal of physiology - 1 Apr 1996
Kitamura M, Mitarai T, Nagasawa R, Maruyama N
Abstract excerpt
Prolonged culture of glomerular mesangial cells forms nodular structures composed of cells and surrounding extracellular matrix (ECM), which may mimic the situation in the glomerular mesangium of the kidney. The aim of this study was to investigate whether nodule-associated cells (NAC) exhibit a different phenotype to nodule-unassociated cells (NUC) in vitro. As phenotypic markers for rat mesangial cells, we...
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