New perspectives on the renal slit diaphragm protein podocin

Modern Pathology

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1101-1110

  Relle, Manfred ^a   Cash, Hannes ^b   Brochhausen, Christoph ^a   Strand, Dennis ^a   Menke, Julia ^a   Galle, Peter R ^a   Schwarting, Andreas ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

isoform; kidney; podocin; Sertoli cell only syndrome; Sertoli cells; testis; WT 1

Indexed keywords

F ACTIN; MESSENGER RNA; PODOCIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; BLOOD TESTIS BARRIER; DOWN REGULATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; KIDNEY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PODOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SERTOLI CELL; TESTIS;

ADULT; AGED; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PODOCYTES; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SERTOLI CELL-ONLY SYNDROME; SERTOLI CELLS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79961028198     PISSN: 08933952     EISSN: 15300285     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/modpathol.2011.58     Document Type: Article

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