The molecular control of renal branching morphogenesis: Current knowledge and emerging insights

Differentiation

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 227-246

  Piscione, Tino D ^a   Rosenblum, Norman D ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Branching; Collecting duct; Kidney development; Morphogenesis

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; GROWTH FACTOR; PROTEIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; CYTOKINE; GLYCOPROTEIN; GROWTH PROMOTOR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN RECEPTOR; MIDKINE; NERVE PROTEIN; PLEIOTROPHIN; ROUNDABOUT RECEPTOR; SLIT PROTEIN, VERTEBRATE;

APOPTOSIS; BUD; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURFACE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; KIDNEY CALYX; KIDNEY DEVELOPMENT; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY DYSPLASIA; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY MEDULLA; KIDNEY PELVIS; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCIENCE; URETER; URINE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; CELL DIVISION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; KIDNEY COLLECTING TUBULE; MOUSE; MULTICYSTIC DYSPLASTIC KIDNEY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT;

MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL DIVISION; CYTOKINES; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GLYCOPROTEINS; GROWTH SUBSTANCES; HUMANS; KIDNEY TUBULES, COLLECTING; MICE; MODELS, ANIMAL; MORPHOGENESIS; MULTICYSTIC DYSPLASTIC KIDNEY; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, IMMUNOLOGIC; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0036688816     PISSN: 03014681     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-0436.2002.700602.x     Document Type: Review

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