Mating worms and the cystic kidney: Caenorhabditis elegans as a model for renal disease

Pediatric Nephrology

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1531-1536

  Lipton, Jonathan ^a,b  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL AT MONTEFIORE   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cilia; Excretory cell; Mating behavior; Polycystic kidney disease; Polycystins

Indexed keywords

POLYCYSTIN;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EUKARYOTIC FLAGELLUM; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INTERACTION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC MODEL; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; KIDNEY TUBULE; MATING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN ISOLATION; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CILIA; HUMANS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MUTATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; POLYCYSTIC KIDNEY, AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT; PROTEINS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRPP CATION CHANNELS;

EID: 27644475901     PISSN: 0931041X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00467-005-1958-x     Document Type: Review

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