Kidney development: Two tales of tubulogenesis

Current Topics in Developmental Biology

Volumn 90, Issue C, 2010, Pages 193-229

  Little, Melissa ^a   Georgas, Kylie ^a   Pennisi, David ^a   Wilkinson, Lorine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Kidney development; Metanephric mesenchyme; Metanephros; Morphogenesis; Ureteric bud; Urogenital

Indexed keywords

GLIAL CELL LINE DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; PROTEIN RET; WNT PROTEIN;

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; EMBRYOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; KIDNEY; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY TUBULE; METABOLISM; MORPHOGENESIS; ORGANOGENESIS; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GLIAL CELL LINE-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; HUMANS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY DISEASES; KIDNEY TUBULES; MORPHOGENESIS; ORGANOGENESIS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-RET; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELLS; WNT PROTEINS;

EID: 77955341365     PISSN: 00702153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0070-2153(10)90005-7     Document Type: Chapter

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