Emerging roles of obstruction and mutations in renal malformations

Pediatric Nephrology

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 690-694

  Woolf, Adrian S ^a,b  

^a ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gene expression; Mutations; Nephrogenesis; Urinary obstruction

Indexed keywords

APOPTOSIS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HUMAN; KIDNEY AGENESIS; KIDNEY DEVELOPMENT; KIDNEY DYSPLASIA; KIDNEY HYPOPLASIA; KIDNEY MALFORMATION; MICTURITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL; VESICOURETERAL REFLUX;

EID: 0031663623     PISSN: 0931041X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004670050528     Document Type: Review

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