Gender differences in kidney function

Pflugers Archiv European Journal of Physiology

Volumn 455, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 397-429

  Sabolić, Ivan ^a   Asif, Abdul R ^c   Budach, Wolfgang E ^b   Wanke, Christoph ^b   Bahn, Andrew ^c   Burckhardt, Gerhard ^c  

^a INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH AND OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Croatia)

^b NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Androgens; Drug transporters; Estrogens; Organic anion transporters; Organic cation transporters; Renal transporters; Sex differences; Sexual dimorphism

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ESTROGEN; HORMONE RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; ORGANIC ANION TRANSPORTER 2; ORGANIC CATION TRANSPORTER; SEX HORMONE;

APICAL MEMBRANE; BASOLATERAL MEMBRANE; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; DATA ANALYSIS; DNA MICROARRAY; DRUG TRANSPORT; EPITHELIUM CELL; HUMAN; KIDNEY; KIDNEY CORTEX; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY STRUCTURE; KIDNEY TUBULE ABSORPTION; NEPHRON; NEPHROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PUBLICATION; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; CYCLACILLIN; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; KIDNEY; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ORGANIC ANION TRANSPORTERS; ORGANIC CATION TRANSPORT PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; RNA, MESSENGER; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 35448960410     PISSN: 00316768     EISSN: 14322013     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00424-007-0308-1     Document Type: Review

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