The spectrum of FSGS: Does pathology matter?

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1034-1036

  Fogo, Agnes B ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCINEURIN INHIBITOR; DYSTROGLYCAN;

ARTERIONEPHROSCLEROSIS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FOCAL GLOMERULOSCLEROSIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; GLOMERULAR STRUCTURE; GLOMERULUS BASEMENT MEMBRANE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY GRAFT; KIDNEY HYPERTROPHY; KIDNEY TUMOR; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NEPHROTIC SYNDROME; NOTE; PODOCYTOPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEINURIA; PROTEOMICS; RECURRENT DISEASE; REFLUX NEPHROPATHY; SPECTRUM; VIRUS INFECTION;

ANIMALS; GLOMERULOSCLEROSIS, FOCAL SEGMENTAL; HUMANS;

EID: 77950212549     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfp745     Document Type: Note

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