... components. Once ARF is established, repair processes set in which appear to depend on growth factors such as epidermal growth factor and insulin-like growth factor 1 of which there is a relative shortage in established ARF. Experimental therapeutic approaches focus on the restitution of microcirculation...

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...Makoto Kawaguchi; Fumie Kawashima; Keisuke Ohshima; Satoru Kawaguchi; Hiroyoshi Wada The renal epithelium appears to be an important target tissue for retinoic acid and epidermal growth factor (EGF). We report here that retinoic acid enhances the proliferative effect of EGF on glomerular epithelial...

...Beth M. Atkin; Wilbur A. Franklin; Graeme I. Bell; Gary Toback Epidermal growth factor (EGF) has previously been found in cells of the thick ascending limb of Henle’s loop (TALH) and the first part of the distal convoluted tubule (DCT) of mouse kidney. To define the cellular localization...

... tubular epithelial cells (EPC), mesangial cells (MC) and glomerular endothelial cells (GEDC) as well as endothelial cells (EDC) and myofibroblasts (MF) from cattle were isolated to measure the proliferation and protein synthesis in the presence of individual and combined cytokines/growth factors in cell...

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...Winson W. Tang; Lili Feng; David J. Loskutoff; Curtis B. Wilson Thickening of the glomerular basement membrane (GBM) results from excessive accumulation of extracellular matrix (ECM) proteins following glomerular injury. We studied the temporal relationship between the expression of growth factors...