The wt1-heterozygous mouse; a model to study the development of glomerular sclerosis

Journal of Pathology

Volumn 200, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 667-674

  Menke, Aswin L ^a   Ijpenberg, Annemieke ^a   Fleming, Stewart ^b   Ross, Allyson ^a   Medine, Claire N ^a   Patek, Charles E ^a   Spraggon, Lee ^a   Hughes, Jeremy ^c   Clarke, Alan R ^d   Hastie, Nicholas D ^a  

^a WESTERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

actinin 4; Albuminuria; CD2AP; Kidney; Nephrin; Podocytes; Proteinuria; Sclerosis; WT1

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; ALPHA ACTININ; CREATININE; NEPHRIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR WT1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UREA;

ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRTH; CELL FUSION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GLOMERULOSCLEROSIS; GLOMERULUS BASEMENT MEMBRANE; HETEROZYGOSITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; KIDNEY DISEASE; MALE; MONITORING; MOUSE; NEPHROBLASTOMA; NONHUMAN; PODOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEINURIA; SCAR FORMATION; UREA BLOOD LEVEL; WILD TYPE;

ALBUMINURIA; ANIMALS; CREATININE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GLOMERULOSCLEROSIS, FOCAL SEGMENTAL; HETEROZYGOTE; KIDNEY; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; PROTEINURIA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; UREA; WT1 PROTEINS;

EID: 0042524183     PISSN: 00223417     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/path.1390     Document Type: Article

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