Redistribution of connexin43 expression in glomerular podocytes predicts poor renal prognosis in patients with type 2 diabetes and overt nephropathy

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 2472-2477

  Sawai, Kazutomo ^a   Mukoyama, Masashi ^a   Mori, Kiyoshi ^a   Yokoi, Hideki ^a   Koshikawa, Masao ^a   Yoshioka, Tetsuro ^a   Takeda, Ryuji ^b   Sugawara, Akira ^a   Kuwahara, T Takashi ^c   Saleem, Moin A ^d   Ogawa, Osamu ^a   Nakao, Kazuwa ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KINKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c SAISEIKAI NAKATSU HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Connexin43; Glomerular visceral epithelial cell; Overt diabetic nephropathy; Pathogenesis; Podocyte; Prognosis

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 43; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CELL DAMAGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY; DISEASE COURSE; DOWN REGULATION; FEMALE; GLOMERULUS; GLOMERULUS BASEMENT MEMBRANE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; MALE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PODOCYTE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; WESTERN BLOTTING; BIOPSY; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL CULTURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FOLLOW UP; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BIOPSY; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELLS, CULTURED; CONNEXIN 43; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHIES; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PODOCYTES; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33750132733     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfl260     Document Type: Article

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