Regulation of the mesangial cell myofibr
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Keyur Patel; Pamela Harding; Lisa B. Haney; William F. Glass II
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Article
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2003
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract Mesangial cells in diverse glomerular diseases become myofibroblastβlike, characterized by activation of smooth muscle Ξ±βactin (Ξ±βSMA) expression. In cultured mesangial cells, serumβdeprivation markedly increases Ξ±βSMA expression, cell size, and stress fiber formation. Since stress fibe