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Comment
. 2007 Aug;72(3):242-4.
doi: 10.1038/sj.ki.5002331.

A nest in renal fibrosis?

J-L Bascands  1 , J Klein, J P Schanstra
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A nest in renal fibrosis?

J-L Bascands et al. Kidney Int. 2007 Aug.
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Abstract

Sakairi and collaborators show that some tubular cells as well as some interstitial myofibroblasts express the intermediate filament protein nestin. These findings evoke questions about the origin and role of these nestin-positive cells in the development of tubulointerstitial fibrosis.

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    Sakairi T, Hiromura K, Yamashita S, Takeuchi S, Tomioka M, Ideura H, Maeshima A, Kaneko Y, Kuroiwa T, Nangaku M, Takeuchi T, Nojima Y. Sakairi T, et al. Kidney Int. 2007 Aug;72(3):307-18. doi: 10.1038/sj.ki.5002277. Epub 2007 Apr 11. Kidney Int. 2007. PMID: 17429339

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