Hydroureternephrosis due to loss of Sox9-regulated smooth muscle cell differentiation of the ureteric mesenchyme

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 19, Issue 24, 2010, Pages 4918-4929

  Airik, Rannar ^a   Trowe, Mark Oliver ^a   Foik, Anna ^a   Farin, Henner F ^a   Petry, Marianne ^a   Schuster Gossler, Karin ^a   Schweizer, Michaela ^b   Scherer, Gerd ^c   Kist, Ralf ^d   Kispert, Andreas ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^d NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX9; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TBX18; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHROMATIN CONDENSATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE MUTATION; HETEROZYGOTE; HYDRONEPHROSIS; HYDROURETER; MESENCHYME; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PENETRANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; URETER DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE SILENCING; HYDRONEPHROSIS; KIDNEY; MESODERM; MICE; MUTATION; MYOCYTES, SMOOTH MUSCLE; SOX9 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; URETER;

EID: 78649468593     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: 14602083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddq426     Document Type: Article

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