Genetic controls and cellular behaviors in branching morphogenesis of the renal collecting system

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Developmental Biology

Volumn 1, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 693-713

  Costantini, Frank ^a  

^a NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 2; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; SCATTER FACTOR; SEMAPHORIN; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; SPROUTY PROTEIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; VASCULOTROPIN;

AGENESIS; BRANCHING MORPHOGENESIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CELL FUNCTION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENETIC REGULATION; HUMAN; HYPOPLASIA; KIDNEY COLLECTING TUBULE; KIDNEY DEVELOPMENT; KIDNEY HYPOPLASIA; MESENCHYME CELL; NONHUMAN; RENIN ANGIOTENSIN ALDOSTERONE SYSTEM; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY;

ANIMALS; EPITHELIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; KIDNEY; MESODERM; MICE; NEPHRONS; ORGANOGENESIS; URETER; URINARY TRACT;

EID: 84873805725     PISSN: 17597684     EISSN: 17597692     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wdev.52     Document Type: Review

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