Disruption of Smad4 Expression in T Cells Leads to IgA Nephropathy-Like Manifestations

• Hiroyuki Inoshita ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hiroyuki Inoshita, Byung-Gyu Kim

  * E-mail: inoshitahiroyuki@gmail.com

  Affiliations Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Juntendo University Faculty of Medicine, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Byung-Gyu Kim ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hiroyuki Inoshita, Byung-Gyu Kim

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

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• Michifumi Yamashita,

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

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• Sung Hee Choi,

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

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• Yasuhiko Tomino,

  Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Juntendo University Faculty of Medicine, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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• John J. Letterio,

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

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• Steven N. Emancipator

  Affiliations Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Service, Louis Stokes Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

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