Roles of uroplakins in plaque formation, umbrella cell enlargement, and urinary tract diseases

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 167, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1195-1204

  Kong, Xiang Tian ^a   Deng, Fang Ming ^a   Hu, Ping ^a,c   Liang, Feng Xia ^a   Zhou, Ge ^a   Auerbach, Anna B ^a   Genieser, Nancy ^a   Nelson, Peter K ^a   Robbins, Edith S ^a   Shapiro, Ellen ^a   Kachar, Bechara ^b   Sun, Tung Tien ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DEAFNESS AND OTHER COMMUNICATION DISORDERS   (United States)

^c PROCTER AND GAMBLE COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYBRID PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UROPLAKIN; UROPLAKIN IA; UROPLAKIN IB; UROPLAKIN II; UROPLAKIN III; UROPLAKIN IIIB;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APICAL MEMBRANE; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTALLIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HYDRONEPHROSIS; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; KIDNEY FAILURE; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MEMBRANE VESICLE; MOUSE; NEWBORN DEATH; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; URINARY TRACT DISEASE; URINARY TRACT MALFORMATION; UROTHELIUM; VESICOURETERAL REFLUX;

ANIMALS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; KIDNEY DISEASES; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PHENOTYPE; UROLOGIC DISEASES; UROTHELIUM; VESICO-URETERAL REFLUX;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 19944426308     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.200406025     Document Type: Article

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