Noninvasive assessment of antenatal hydronephrosis in mice reveals a critical role for Robo2 in maintaining anti-reflux mechanism

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Wang, Hang ^a,c   Li, Qinggang ^a,d   Liu, Juan ^a   Mendelsohn, Cathy ^b   Salant, David J ^a   Lu, Weining ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

^c FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d CHINESE PLA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULTHOOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTENATAL HYDRONEPHROSIS; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; ECHOGRAPHY; EMBRYO; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HYDRONEPHROSIS; MICROBUBBLE; MICROULTRASONOGRAPHY; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRENATAL PERIOD; ROBO2 GENE; URETER DILATATION; URETER OBSTRUCTION; VESICOURETERAL REFLUX; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; FETUS; KIDNEY; METABOLISM; MOUSE MUTANT; PATHOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT;

MUS;

IMMUNOGLOBULIN RECEPTOR; ROBO2 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; FETUS; HYDRONEPHROSIS; KIDNEY; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PHENOTYPE; RECEPTORS, IMMUNOLOGIC; VESICO-URETERAL REFLUX;

EID: 80052938020     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0024763     Document Type: Article

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