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• Snail1-induced partial epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition drives renal fibrosis in mice and can be targeted to reverse established disease.

  Grande MT, Sánchez-Laorden B, López-Blau C, De Frutos CA, Boutet A, Arévalo M, Rowe RG, Weiss SJ, López-Novoa JM, Nieto MA. Grande MT, et al. Nat Med. 2015 Sep;21(9):989-97. doi: 10.1038/nm.3901. Epub 2015 Aug 3. Nat Med. 2015. PMID: 26236989
• Epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition induces cell cycle arrest and parenchymal damage in renal fibrosis.

  Lovisa S, LeBleu VS, Tampe B, Sugimoto H, Vadnagara K, Carstens JL, Wu CC, Hagos Y, Burckhardt BC, Pentcheva-Hoang T, Nischal H, Allison JP, Zeisberg M, Kalluri R. Lovisa S, et al. Nat Med. 2015 Sep;21(9):998-1009. doi: 10.1038/nm.3902. Epub 2015 Aug 3. Nat Med. 2015. PMID: 26236991 Free PMC article.