LOCALIZATION OF ERYTHROPOIETIN GENE EXPR
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SHANKS, JONATHAN H.; HILL, CLAIRE M.; LAPPIN, TERENCE R. J.; MAXWELL, A. PETER
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Article
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1996
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Erythropoietin (EPO) is the main humoral stimulus of erythropoiesis. In adult mammals, the kidney releases EPO in response to hypoxic stress. Conflicting data have suggested either renal tubular or peritubular cell origins of EPO synthesis in viva Zn situ hybridization studies were performed to defi