Clinical features and mutational survey of NPHS2 (podocin) in Japanese children with focal segmental glomerulosclerosis who underwent renal transplantation

Pediatric Transplantation

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 341-346

  Furue, Takeki ^a   Hattori, Motoshi ^a   Tsukaguchi, Hiroyasu ^b   Kitamura, Akiko ^b   Oomori, Tae ^a   Ogino, Daisuke ^a   Nakakura, Hyogo ^c   Ashida, Akira ^c   Miura, Kenichiro ^a   Hisano, Masataka ^a   Takahashi, Kazuhiro ^a   Chikamoto, Hiroko ^a   Akioka, Yuko ^a   Sakano, Takashi ^d  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^c OSAKA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^d HIROSHIMA PREFECTURAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Children; Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis; NPHS2 mutation; Podocin; Post transplant recurrence

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PODOCIN; PREDNISONE; TACROLIMUS;

ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; EXON; FEMALE; FOCAL GLOMERULOSCLEROSIS; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; JAPANESE; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECURRENT DISEASE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ALANINE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GLOMERULOSCLEROSIS, FOCAL SEGMENTAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; JAPAN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RECURRENCE;

EID: 42549096374     PISSN: 13973142     EISSN: 13993046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3046.2007.00752.x     Document Type: Article

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