Renal phenotypic investigations of megalin-deficient patients: Novel insights into tubular proteinuria and albumin filtration

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 585-591

  Storm, Tina ^a   Tranebjærg, Lisbeth ^b   Frykholm, Carina ^c   Birn, Henrik ^a   Verroust, Pierre J ^a   Nevéus, Tryggve ^c   Sundelin, Birgitta ^d   Hertz, Jens Michael ^e   Holmström, Gerd ^c   Ericson, Katharina ^c   Christensen, Erik I ^a   Nielsen, Rikke ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^e ODENSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Low molecular weight proteinuria; Megalin deficient patients; Micro albuminuria; Proximal tubules; Renal immunohistochemistry

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; MEGALIN; RETINOL BINDING PROTEIN; VITAMIN D BINDING PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DONNAI BARROW FACIOOCULARACUSTICORENAL SYNDROME; ENDOCYTOSIS; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; GLOMERULUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY PROXIMAL TUBULE; KIDNEY TUBULE ABSORPTION; LRP2 GENE; MALE; MICROALBUMINURIA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEINURIA; URINALYSIS;

AGENESIS OF CORPUS CALLOSUM; ALBUMINS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; KIDNEY TUBULES, PROXIMAL; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR-RELATED PROTEIN-2; MUTATION; MYOPIA; PHENOTYPE; PROTEINURIA;

EID: 84874891861     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfs462     Document Type: Article

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