Connecting the interpodocyte slit diaphragm and actin dynamics: Emerging role for the nephrin signaling complex

Kidney International

Volumn 73, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 903-905

  Lehtonen, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; COFILIN; NEPHRIN; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE B; PUROMYCIN AMINONUCLEOSIDE; RHOA GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ACTIN POLYMERIZATION; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL DAMAGE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; GLOMERULUS BASEMENT MEMBRANE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; LAMELLAR BODY; LIGAND BINDING; MINIMAL CHANGE GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PODOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEINURIA;

EID: 41449084642     PISSN: 00852538     EISSN: 15231755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ki.2008.69     Document Type: Note

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