Clinical and pathologic features of focal segmental glomerulosclerosis with mitochondrial tRNALeu(UUR) gene mutation

Kidney International

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 1236-1243

  Hotta, Osamu ^a,b,c   Inoue, Chiyoko N ^a,b,c   Miyabayashi, Shigeaki ^a,b,c   Furuta, Takashi ^a,b,c   Takeuchi, Akihiko ^a,b,c   Taguma, Yoshio ^a,b,c  

^a Sendal Open Hospital   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL DEFENSE MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

A3243G transition mutation; DNA mutation; FSGS; Kidney glomeruli; MELAS; Podocyte; Proteinuria

Indexed keywords

LEUCINE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL RNA; STEROID; TRANSFER RNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EXTRACHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; FAMILY STUDY; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC SCREENING; GLOMERULOSCLEROSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KIDNEY BIOPSY; LEUKOCYTE; MICROSCOPY; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PEDIGREE; PODOCYTE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEINURIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; URINE SEDIMENT;

EID: 0035072946     PISSN: 00852538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1755.2001.0590041236.x     Document Type: Article

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