Microvascular endothelial cells poised to take center stage in experimental renal fibrosis

Affiliations

¹ Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, and Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York ilse.daehn@mssm.edu.
² Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, and Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York.

Editorial

Ilse Daehn et al. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2015 Apr.

. 2015 Apr;26(4):767-9.

doi: 10.1681/ASN.2014121170. Epub 2014 Dec 22.

¹ Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, and Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York ilse.daehn@mssm.edu.
² Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, and Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York.

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Keywords: TGF-β; hypoxia; tubulointerstitial.

Comment on

Curtailing endothelial TGF-β signaling is sufficient to reduce endothelial-mesenchymal transition and fibrosis in CKD.
Xavier S, Vasko R, Matsumoto K, Zullo JA, Chen R, Maizel J, Chander PN, Goligorsky MS. Xavier S, et al. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2015 Apr;26(4):817-29. doi: 10.1681/ASN.2013101137. Epub 2014 Dec 22. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2015. PMID: 25535303 Free PMC article.

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