Static Pressure Regulates Connective Tissue Growth Factor Expression in Human Mesangial Cells

Connective tissue growth factor: a cysteine-rich mitogen secreted by human vascular endothelial cells is related to the SRC-induced immediate early gene product CEF-10.

1991 • 878 citations

Expression of connective tissue growth factor in human renal fibrosis

1998 • 545 citations

A novel transforming growth factor beta response element controls the expression of the connective tissue growth factor gene.

1996 • 526 citations

Suppression Subtractive Hybridization Identifies High Glucose Levels as a Stimulus for Expression of Connective Tissue Growth Factor and Other Genes in Human Mesangial Cells

1999 • 395 citations

Regulation of Connective Tissue Growth Factor Activity in Cultured Rat Mesangial Cells and Its Expression in Experimental Diabetic Glomerulosclerosis

2000 • 390 citations

Cyclic strain upregulates nitric oxide synthase in cultured bovine aortic endothelial cells.

1995 • 331 citations

Human Connective Tissue Growth Factor Is Expressed in Advanced Atherosclerotic Lesions

1997 • 301 citations

Connective tissue growth factor: Potential role in glomerulosclerosis and tubulointerstitial fibrosis

2000 • 290 citations

Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Induces Expression of Connective Tissue Growth Factor via KDR, Flt1, and Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinase-Akt-dependent Pathways in Retinal Vascular Cells

2000 • 241 citations

Pulsatile Stretch Stimulates Superoxide Production and Activates Nuclear Factor-κB in Human Coronary Smooth Muscle

1997 • 206 citations

Connective Tissue Growth Factor

1997 • 198 citations

Pulsatile Stretch Stimulates Superoxide Production in Human Aortic Endothelial Cells

1997 • 186 citations

Connective Tissue Growth Factor Induces Apoptosis in Human Breast Cancer Cell Line MCF-7

1999 • 176 citations

Inhibition of Endogenous Expression of Connective Tissue Growth Factor by Its Antisense Oligonucleotide and Antisense RNA Suppresses Proliferation and Migration of Vascular Endothelial Cells

1998 • 160 citations

Blood Levels of Alpha-1-Antichymotrypsin and Risk Factors for Alzheimer’s Disease: Effects of Gender and Apolipoprotein E Genotype

2000 • 141 citations

Pressure promotes DNA synthesis in rat cultured vascular smooth muscle cells.

1994 • 125 citations

Pressure Enhances Endothelin-1 Release From Cultured Human Endothelial Cells

1995 • 117 citations

Induction of Connective Tissue Growth Factor by Activation of Heptahelical Receptors

2000 • 108 citations

Overexpression of Connective Tissue Growth Factor Gene Induces Apoptosis in Human Aortic Smooth Muscle Cells

1999 • 101 citations

Glomerular hypertension, abnormal glomerular growth, and progression of renal diseases

2000 • 99 citations

Expression of connective tissue growth factor in cartilaginous tumors

2000 • 96 citations

Increased ambient pressure stimulates proliferation and morphologic changes in cultured endothelial cells

1994 • 87 citations

Connective tissue growth factor induces apoptosis via caspase 3 in cultured human aortic smooth muscle cells

2000 • 77 citations

Transmural pressure inhibits nitric oxide release from human endothelial cells

1992 • 71 citations

Connective tissue growth factor: just another factor in renal fibrosis?

2000 • 68 citations

Connective Tissue Growth Factor Expression in the Rat Remnant Kidney Model and Association with Tubular Epithelial Cells Undergoing Transdifferentiation

2000 • 66 citations

Effect of extracellular ATP level on flow-induced Ca++ response in cultured vascular endothelial cells

1991 • 61 citations

Stretch increases inositol trisphosphate and inositol tetrakisphosphate in cultured pulmonary vascular smooth muscle cells

1991 • 59 citations

Vascular endothelial growth factor activates MAP kinase and enhances collagen synthesis in human mesangial cells

1999 • 55 citations

Activation of Na-H exchange by intracellular lithium in barnacle muscle fibers

1992 • 46 citations

The role of systemic hypertension in the progression of nondiabetic renal disease

2000 • 44 citations

Novel intracellular effects of human connective tissue growth factor expressed in Cos‐7 cells

2000 • 39 citations

Overexpression of truncated Iκ;Bα potentiates TNF-α-induced apoptosis in mesangial cells

2000 • 36 citations

High pressure conditions promote the proliferation of rat cultured mesangial cells in vitro

1998 • 23 citations

Activation of Protein Kinase C Inhibits the Expression of Connective Tissue Growth Factor

2000 • 16 citations

New Method of Investigating Functional Roles of Pressure-Sensitive Mechanoreceptor in Human Endothelial Cells

1992 • 9 citations