Primary ureteral reflux: Emerging insights from molecular and genetic studies

Current Opinion in Pediatrics

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 181-185

  Mak, Robert H ^a   Kuo, Huey Ju ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOTENSIN 2 RECEPTOR; SUCCIMER; UROPLAKIN;

ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MICTURITION CYSTOURETHROGRAPHY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN URINE LEVEL; REFLUX NEPHROPATHY; REVIEW; SEGREGATION ANALYSIS; UROTHELIUM; VESICOURETERAL REFLUX;

ANGIOTENSIN II; ANIMALS; CHILD; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MODELS, ANIMAL; PROTEOMICS; RECEPTORS, ANGIOTENSIN; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS; UROTHELIUM; VESICO-URETERAL REFLUX;

EID: 0037376020     PISSN: 10408703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00008480-200304000-00007     Document Type: Review

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