Human renal cells from the thick ascending limb and early distal tubule: Characterization of primary isolated and cultured cells by reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction

Nephrology

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 316-321

  Baer, Patrick C ^a   Geiger, Helmut ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Differentiation; Distal; In vitro; Kidney; Proximal; Renal

Indexed keywords

AQUAPORIN 2; AQUAPORIN 3; BETA ACTIN; CADHERIN; CALCIUM; CYTOKERATIN 8; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; RNA; SODIUM POTASSIUM CHLORIDE COTRANSPORTER; TAMM HORSFALL GLYCOPROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX2;

ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL ISOLATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HENLE LOOP; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOMAGNETIC SEPARATION; IN VITRO STUDY; KIDNEY TUBULE; NEPHRON; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; AQUAPORINS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CADHERINS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SHAPE; CELLS, CULTURED; HUMANS; IMMUNOMAGNETIC SEPARATION; KERATIN-8; KIDNEY TUBULES, DISTAL; LOOP OF HENLE; MUCOPROTEINS; PAX2 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; RECEPTOR, EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SODIUM-POTASSIUM-CHLORIDE SYMPORTERS; TIME FACTORS; TRPV CATION CHANNELS;

EID: 43449117188     PISSN: 13205358     EISSN: 14401797     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1797.2008.00927.x     Document Type: Article

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