An unusual association of contralateral congenital small kidney, reduced renal function and hyperparathyroidism in sponge kidney patients: On the track of the molecular basis

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 20, Issue , 2005, Pages 1042-1047

  Gambaro, Giovanni ^a,b   Fabris, Antonia ^a   Citron, Lorenzo ^b   Tosetto, Enrica ^b   Anglani, Franca ^b   Bellan, Francesco ^b   Conte, Marilena ^a   Bonfante, Luciana ^b   Lupo, Antonio ^a   D'Angelo, Angela ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF VERONA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Hyperparathyroidism; MEN 2A; Renal hypoplasia; RET; Sponge kidney

Indexed keywords

GLIAL CELL LINE DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; PROTEIN RET;

ADULT; AGED; BLASTEMA; CELL PROLIFERATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDITORIAL; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC STRUCTURES; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HUMAN; HYPERPARATHYROIDISM; KIDNEY COLLECTING TUBULE; KIDNEY DEVELOPMENT; KIDNEY DYSPLASIA; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY SIZE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDULLARY SPONGE KIDNEY; NEPHROLITHIASIS; NEPHRON; PARATHYROID CELL; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SOLITARY KIDNEY; URETER;

ADULT; FEMALE; GLIAL CELL LINE-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; HUMANS; HYPERPARATHYROIDISM; HYPERTROPHY; KIDNEY; MALE; MEDULLARY SPONGE KIDNEY; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE GROWTH FACTORS; ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PARATHYROID HORMONE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-RET; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 20844444776     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfh798     Document Type: Editorial

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