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TGF- <i>β</i> upregulates interleukin 6 production by rat glomerular epithelial cells <i>in vitro</i>

DOI

11

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0

References

1995

Year

Hiroshi Osawa, Hideaki Yamabe, Hiroshi Inuma, Masaaki Miyata, Tamito Sasaki, Mitsuaki Kaizuka, Naoyuki Tamura, Satoru Tsunoda, Yasuyuki Fujita, Tetsufumi Kanazawa
Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Abstract

These results indicate that rat GECs could produce IL-6 which may modulate glomerular inflammation and that IL-6 may function as an autocrine factor for GECs.