Podocyte foot process effacement is not correlated with the level of proteinuria in human glomerulopathies

Kidney International

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1901-1906

  Van Den Berg, José G ^a   Van Den Bergh Weerman, Marius A ^b   Assmann, Karel J M ^b   Weening, Jan J ^b   Florquin, Sandrine ^b  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Electron microscopy; Foot process effacement; Glomerular visceral epithelial cell; Minimal change nephrotic syndrome; Podocyte; Proteinuria

Indexed keywords

METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISOLONE; GLUCOCORTICOID;

ARTICLE; CELL DAMAGE; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CELL ORGANELLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIFFUSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPE; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; GLOMERULUS CAPILLARY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A NEPHROPATHY; KIDNEY; KIDNEY BIOPSY; NEPHROTIC SYNDROME; PODOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEINURIA; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RANDOMIZATION; RECURRENT DISEASE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EPITHELIUM CELL; GLOMERULUS; HOSPITALIZATION; LIPOID NEPHROSIS; PATHOLOGY; URINE;

BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; EPITHELIAL CELLS; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS, IGA; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; KIDNEY GLOMERULUS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NEPHROSIS, LIPOID; PREDNISOLONE; PROTEINURIA; RECURRENCE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 15944387124     PISSN: 00852538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1755.2004.00964.x     Document Type: Article

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