Using mouse models to understand normal and abnormal urogenital tract development

Organogenesis

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 32-40

  Mendelsohn, Cathy ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Bladder; Common nephric duct; Development; Obstruction; Reflux; Ureter maturation; Urinary tract

Indexed keywords

APOPTOSIS; BLADDER; BLADDER NECK; CELL DEATH; DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC STRUCTURES; INTROSPECTION; KIDNEY; MATURATION; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; POPULATION; REVIEW; URETER; URETER DISEASE; UROGENITAL SINUS; UROGENITAL SYSTEM;

WOLFFIA;

EID: 65949113845     PISSN: 15476278     EISSN: 15558592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/org.8173     Document Type: Review

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