Primary renal hypoplasia in humans and mice with PAX2 mutations: Evidence of increased apoptosis in fetal kidneys of Pax2(1Neu) +/- mutant mice

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-11

  Porteous, Sarah ^a   Torban, Elena ^b   Nam Pyo, Cho ^a   Cunliffe, Heather ^a   Chua, Lin ^a   McNoe, Les ^a   Ward, Teresa ^a   Souza, Carolina ^c   Patricia, Gus ^c   Giugliani, Roberte ^c   Sato, Tadashi ^d   Kankatsu, Yun ^a   Favor, Jack ^e   Sicotte, Marilyn ^b   Goodyer, Paul ^b   Eccles, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b MONTREAL CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c HOSPITAL DE CLÍNICAS DE PORTO ALEGRE   (Brazil)

^d SAGA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ADULT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CELL DEATH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GENE DOSAGE; GENE MUTATION; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; KIDNEY DEVELOPMENT; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY HYPOPLASIA; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; URETER;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0034013279     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/9.1.1     Document Type: Article

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