Renal fibrosis: New insights into the pathogenesis and therapeutics

Epithelial-mesenchymal transition and its implications for fibrosis

2003 • 2,239 citations

Epithelial-mesenchymal transition and its implications for fibrosis

2003 • 2,110 citations

BMP-7 counteracts TGF-β1–induced epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition and reverses chronic renal injury

2003 • 1,308 citations

Rac1b and reactive oxygen species mediate MMP-3-induced EMT and genomic instability

2005 • 1,225 citations

Epithelial to Mesenchymal Transition in Renal Fibrogenesis

2004 • 1,036 citations

TGF-ß Signaling in Renal Disease

2002 • 715 citations

Molecular basis of renal fibrosis

2000 • 627 citations

Chronic renal diseases as a public health problem: Epidemiology, social, and economic implications

2005 • 443 citations

Blockage of Tubular Epithelial to Myofibroblast Transition by Hepatocyte Growth Factor Prevents Renal Interstitial Fibrosis

2002 • 327 citations

TGF-β signal transduction and mesangial cell fibrogenesis

2003 • 307 citations

Hepatocyte growth factor in kidney fibrosis: therapeutic potential and mechanisms of action

2004 • 260 citations

Gelatinase A (MMP-2) Is Necessary and Sufficient for Renal Tubular Cell Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transformation

2003 • 255 citations

Signaling Mechanism of TGF-β1 in Prevention of Renal Inflammation

2005 • 233 citations

Disruption of tissue-type plasminogen activator gene in mice reduces renal interstitial fibrosis in obstructive nephropathy

2002 • 228 citations

Mechanisms of tubulointerstitial fibrosis

2004 • 216 citations

Disruption of tissue-type plasminogen activator gene in mice reduces renal interstitial fibrosis in obstructive nephropathy

2002 • 200 citations

A Novel Mechanism by which Hepatocyte Growth Factor Blocks Tubular Epithelial to Mesenchymal Transition

2004 • 178 citations

Ultrasound-Microbubble-Mediated Gene Transfer of Inducible Smad7 Blocks Transforming Growth Factor-β Signaling and Fibrosis in Rat Remnant Kidney

2005 • 157 citations

Divergent effects of low versus high dose anti-TGF-β antibody in puromycin aminonucleoside nephropathy in rats

2003 • 89 citations

Downregulation of Smad Transcriptional Corepressors SnoN and Ski in the Fibrotic Kidney

2003 • 88 citations

Plasmin is not protective in experimental renal interstitial fibrosis1

2004 • 68 citations

Wound Healing in the Kidney

2004 • 38 citations