Macrophage-to-Myofibroblast Transition Contributes to Interstitial Fibrosis in Chronic Renal Allograft Injury - Wang, Ying-Ying; Jiang, Hong; Pan, Jun; Huang, Xiao-Ru; Wang, Yu-Cheng; Huang, Hong-Feng; To, Ka-Fai; Nikolic-Paterson, David J.; Lan, Hui-Yao; Chen, Jiang-Hua (Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, 2017)
Keywords: Allografts; Animals; Basic Research; Cell Transdifferentiation; Chronic Disease; Female; Fibrosis - etiology; Humans; Kidney - pathology; Kidney Diseases - etiology; Kidney Transplantation; Macrophages - cytology; Macrophages - physiology; Male; Mice; Mice, Inbred C57BL; Myofibroblasts - cytology; Myofibroblasts - physiology; Postoperative Complications - etiology; macrophage myofibroblast transition; M2 macrophage; Smad3; lineage tracing; interstitial fibrosis; chronic allograft rejection