Ablation of developing podocytes disrupts cellular interactions and nephrogenesis both inside and outside the glomerulus

American Journal of Physiology - Renal Physiology

Volumn 295, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Jia, Qunshan ^a   McDill, Bradley W ^a,d   Sankarapandian, Bala ^a   Wu, Sen ^a   Liapis, Helen ^b   Holzman, Lawrence B ^c   Capecchi, Mario R ^a   Miner, Jeffrey H ^a   Chen, Feng ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d Washington Univ School of Medicine ^*

Author keywords

Diphtheria toxin; Glomerulogenesis; Kidney development

Indexed keywords

DIPHTHERIA TOXIN; VASCULOTROPIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE ARREST; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL LOSS; CELL MATURATION; CELL STRAIN; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GLOMERULOSCLEROSIS; GLOMERULUS; HEMATURIA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KIDNEY COLLECTING TUBULE; KIDNEY DEVELOPMENT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OLIGURIA; PERINATAL DEATH; PODOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEINURIA; URINALYSIS;

EID: 57349103160     PISSN: 1931857X     EISSN: 15221466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajprenal.90519.2008     Document Type: Article

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