Abstract
During peritoneal dialysis (PD), epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is likely involved in aberrant healing and progressive peritoneal fibrosis. Recently, EMT of the kidney was actively reversed into the opposite direction, into mesenchymal-epithelial transition (MET), by treatment with bone morphogenic protein-7 (BMP-7). In this study, the potential for ex vivo interconversion of in vivo transdifferentiation processes was investigated in mesothelial cells.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 2943-7 |
Number of pages | 5 |
Journal | Nephrology, Dialysis, Transplantation |
Volume | 21 |
Issue number | 10 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Oct 2006 |
Keywords
- Actins
- Blotting, Western
- Bone Morphogenetic Protein 7
- Bone Morphogenetic Proteins
- Cell Differentiation
- Cells, Cultured
- Child, Preschool
- Cytoskeletal Proteins
- Dialysis Solutions
- Epithelial Cells
- Female
- Fibroblasts
- Humans
- Infant
- Infant, Newborn
- Male
- Mesoderm
- Peritoneal Dialysis
- Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Transforming Growth Factor beta