Nephrin strands contribute to a porous slit diaphragm scaffold as revealed by electron tomography

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Volumn 114, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1475-1483

  Wartiovaara, Jorma ^a   Öfverstedt, Lars Göran ^b   Khoshnoodi, Jamshid ^b,f   Zhang, Jingjing ^a,g   Mäkelä, Eetu ^a   Sandin, Sara ^b   Ruotsalainen, Vesa ^c   Cheng, R Holland ^b,d   Jalanko, Hannu ^e   Skoglund, Ulf ^b   Tryggvason, Karl ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^f VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^g BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; NEPHRIN; PROTEIN ANTIBODY; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; DISULFIDE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONGENITAL NEPHROTIC SYNDROME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY; GLOMERULUS CAPILLARY; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION; GLOMERULUS SLIT DIAPHRAGM; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOGOLD ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOGOLD LABELING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MACROMOLECULE; MEMBRANE FILTER; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PODOCYTE; POROSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEFICIENCY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEINURIA; RAT; TISSUE STRUCTURE; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CAPILLARY; CELL LINE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GLOMERULUS; METABOLISM; MOUSE MUTANT; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VASCULARIZATION;

ANIMALS; CAPILLARIES; CELL LINE; DISULFIDES; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KIDNEY GLOMERULUS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEINS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 33645749205     PISSN: 00219738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1172/JCI22562     Document Type: Article

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