What PAX genes do in the kidney

Experimental Nephrology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 7-11

  Torban, Elena ^a   Goodyer, Paul ^a,b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MONTREAL CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

E Cadherin Vimentin; Kidney development; PAX; Wilms' tumor

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; KIDNEY DEVELOPMENT; KIDNEY PROXIMAL TUBULE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MORPHOGENESIS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY;

EID: 0031931669     PISSN: 10187782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000020498     Document Type: Short Survey

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