Embryonic renal epithelia: Induction, nephrogenesis, and cell differentiation

Physiological Reviews

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1157-1191

  Horster, Michael F ^a   Braun, Gerald S ^a   Huber, Stephan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROWTH FACTOR; POLYPEPTIDE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TYROSINE KINASE RECEPTOR;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUNCTION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; KIDNEY COLLECTING TUBULE; KIDNEY EPITHELIUM; KIDNEY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NEPHROBLASTOMA; NEPHRON; ORGANOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 0032827029     PISSN: 00319333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/physrev.1999.79.4.1157     Document Type: Review

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