Pediatric Nephrotic Syndrome: From the Simple to the Complex

Seminars in Nephrology

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 389-398

  Lane, Jerome C ^a   Kaskel, Frederick J ^b  

^a CHILDREN'S MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL AT MONTEFIORE   (United States)

Author keywords

focal segmental glomerulosclerosis; minimal change disease; nephrin; Nephrotic syndrome; podocin; podocyte

Indexed keywords

ALKYLATING AGENT; ALPHA ACTININ 4; ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; CD2 ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE; CYCLOSPORIN; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; GLIAL CELL LINE DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; NCK PROTEIN; NEPHRIN; NOVEL ERYTHROPOIESIS STIMULATING PROTEIN; PIOGLITAZONE; PODOCIN; RITUXIMAB; SYNAPTOPODIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL CHANNEL 6; WT1 PROTEIN;

ALLERGIC REACTION; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONGENITAL NEPHROTIC SYNDROME; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; CYTOSKELETON; FOCAL GLOMERULOSCLEROSIS; GENE MUTATION; GLOMERULUS BASEMENT MEMBRANE; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION; HUMAN; KIDNEY FIBROSIS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MINIMAL CHANGE GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; NEPHROTIC SYNDROME; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PLASMAPHERESIS; PODOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEINURIA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; GLOMERULOSCLEROSIS, FOCAL SEGMENTAL; HUMANS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; NEPHROSIS, LIPOID; NEPHROTIC SYNDROME; PODOCYTES; PROTEINURIA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 67650102301     PISSN: 02709295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.semnephrol.2009.03.015     Document Type: Article

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