Podocyte actin in health, disease and treatment

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1772-1773

  Mathieson, Peter W ^a  

^a SOUTHMEAD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; ALPHA ACTININ 4; CALCINEURIN INHIBITOR; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOSPORIN; SYNAPTOPODIN;

ACTIN FILAMENT; CELL STRUCTURE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MECHANISM; FOCAL GLOMERULOSCLEROSIS; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; NOTE; PODOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; CYCLOSPORINE; CYTOSKELETON; GLOMERULOSCLEROSIS, FOCAL SEGMENTAL; HUMANS; MICE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MUTANT PROTEINS; PODOCYTES;

EID: 77952970775     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfq121     Document Type: Note

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