Embryonic development of the ureter

Seminars in Nephrology

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 569-584

  Baker, Linda A ^a,b   Ariel Gomez, R ^c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ECTOPIC URETER; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; MEGAURETER; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; NEPHRON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REVIEW; URETER MALFORMATION; URETER OBSTRUCTION; URETER PERISTALSIS;

ANIMALS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; HUMANS; MORPHOGENESIS; PAX2 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-RET; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RENIN-ANGIOTENSIN SYSTEM; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; URETER; URINARY BLADDER;

EID: 0031734478     PISSN: 02709295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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