Rat mesangial cell hypertrophy in response to transforming growth factor-β1

DNA sequencing with chain-terminating inhibitors

1977 • 69,181 citations

Transforming growth factor-beta stimulates the expression of fibronectin and collagen and their incorporation into the extracellular matrix.

1986 • 2,499 citations

TGFβ signals through a heteromeric protein kinase receptor complex

1992 • 1,519 citations

Transforming growth factor beta modulates the expression of collagenase and metalloproteinase inhibitor.

1987 • 1,243 citations

Prevention of diabetic glomerulopathy by pharmacological amelioration of glomerular capillary hypertension.

1986 • 1,210 citations

Transforming growth factor-beta in disease: the dark side of tissue repair.

1992 • 1,126 citations

Expression cloning of the TGF-β type II receptor, a functional transmembrane serine/threonine kinase

1992 • 1,071 citations

Suppression of experimental glomerulonephritis by antiserum against transforming growth factor β1

1990 • 1,002 citations

Evidence that transforming growth factor-β is a hormonally regulated negative growth factor in human breast cancer cells

1987 • 998 citations

Control of glomerular hypertension limits glomerular injury in rats with reduced renal mass.

1985 • 931 citations

New class of transforming growth factors potentiated by epidermal growth factor: isolation from non-neoplastic tissues.

1981 • 925 citations

Expression of transforming growth factor beta is elevated in human and experimental diabetic nephropathy.

1993 • 819 citations

Transforming growth factor beta 1 is present at sites of extracellular matrix gene expression in human pulmonary fibrosis.

1991 • 794 citations

Mechanism of activation of latent recombinant transforming growth factor beta 1 by plasmin.

1990 • 740 citations

Nephron adaptation to renal injury or ablation

1985 • 633 citations

Molecular characterization of endothelin receptors

1992 • 601 citations

Elevated expression of transforming growth factor-beta and proteoglycan production in experimental glomerulonephritis. Possible role in expansion of the mesangial extracellular matrix.

1990 • 555 citations

Production of transforming growth factor beta 1 during repair of arterial injury.

1991 • 539 citations

Characterization of the activation of latent TGF-beta by co-cultures of endothelial cells and pericytes or smooth muscle cells: a self-regulating system.

1990 • 449 citations

In vitro and in vivo association of transforming growth factor-beta 1 with hepatic fibrosis.

1989 • 420 citations

Can, a putative oncogene associated with myeloid leukemogenesis, may be activated by fusion of its 3' half to different genes: characterization of the set gene.

1992 • 392 citations

Transforming growth factor-β regulates production of proteoglycans by mesangial cells

1990 • 365 citations

Dual role of tumor necrosis factor-alpha in angiogenesis.

1992 • 342 citations

Concomitant loss of transforming growth factor (TGF)-beta receptor types I and II in TGF-beta-resistant cell mutants implicates both receptor types in signal transduction.

1990 • 319 citations

Transforming growth factor-beta-induced growth inhibition and cellular hypertrophy in cultured vascular smooth muscle cells.

1988 • 305 citations

Requirement for Activin a and Transforming Growth Factor--β1 Pro-Regions in Homodimer Assembly

1990 • 266 citations

Transforming growth factor-beta induction of type-1 plasminogen activator inhibitor. Pericellular deposition and sensitivity to exogenous urokinase.

1987 • 263 citations

TGF-beta: problems and prospects.

1990 • 260 citations

Production of extracellular matrix by glomerular epithelial cells is regulated by transforming growth factor-β1

1992 • 248 citations

The transforming growth factor-beta receptor type III is a membrane proteoglycan. Domain structure of the receptor.

1988 • 240 citations

Transforming growth factor-beta. Murine glomerular receptors and responses of isolated glomerular cells.

1989 • 235 citations

Co-localization of transforming growth factor beta 2 with alpha 1(I) procollagen mRNA in tissue sections of patients with systemic sclerosis.

1990 • 219 citations

Kidney function and size in diabetics before and during initial insulin treatment

1982 • 194 citations

Evidence for the central role of glomerular growth promoters in the development of sclerosis.

1989 • 154 citations

Transforming growth factor-beta production in anti-glomerular basement membrane disease in the rabbit.

1991 • 123 citations

The Transforming Growth Factor‐Betas: Past, Present, and Future

1990 • 122 citations

Autocrine secretion of transforming growth factor-β in cultured rat mesangial cells

1992 • 116 citations

Nonimmunologic Mechanisms of Glomerular Injury

1989 • 110 citations

A surface component on GH3 pituitary cells that recognizes transforming growth factor-beta, activin, and inhibin.

1988 • 103 citations

Transforming growth factor-β1 stimulates synthesis of proteoglycan aggregates in calf articular cartilage organ cultures

1991 • 99 citations

Dietary protein restriction rapidly reduces transforming growth factor beta 1 expression in experimental glomerulonephritis.

1991 • 96 citations

Transforming Growth Factor‐β: A Family of Growth Regulatory Peptides

1990 • 88 citations

Transforming growth factor beta (TGF-beta) type V receptor has a TGF-beta-stimulated serine/threonine-specific autophosphorylation activity.

1992 • 48 citations

Architecture of the Kidney in Chronic Bright's Disease.

1940 • 46 citations

Expression of a new type high molecular weight receptor (type V receptor) of transforming growth factor β in normal and transformed cells

1991 • 42 citations

Glomerular filtration rate and extracellular fluid volume in insulin-dependent patients with diabetes mellitus

1982 • 38 citations