How does the kidney filter plasma?

Physiology

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 96-101

  Tryggvason, Karl ^a   Wartiovaara, Jorma ^b  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN TYPE 4; ENTACTIN; LAMININ; PODOCIN; PROTEOGLYCAN;

ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GLOMERULAR STRUCTURE; GLOMERULUS BASEMENT MEMBRANE; GLOMERULUS CAPILLARY; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; KIDNEY EPITHELIUM; KIDNEY MICROSOME; KIDNEY PERFUSION; KIDNEY PLASMA FLOW; KIDNEY STRUCTURE; KIDNEY TUBULE CELL; MACROMOLECULE; NONHUMAN; PODOCYTE; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; PROTEIN MOTIF; REVIEW; URINARY EXCRETION;

EID: 18244389464     PISSN: 15489213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/physiol.00045.2004     Document Type: Review

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