Fifteen years of research on nephrin: What we still need to know

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 767-770

  Li, Min ^a   Armelloni, Silvia ^a   Edefonti, Alberto ^a   Messa, Piergiorgio ^a   Rastaldi, Maria Pia ^a  

^a FONDAZIONE IRCCS CA GRANDA OSPEDALE MAGGIORE POLICLINICO   (Italy)

Author keywords

actin dynamics; nephrin; podocytes; signalling; transcription factors

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; COFILIN; GA BINDING PROTEIN; GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR BOUND PROTEIN 2; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; NCK PROTEIN; NEPHRIN; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PHOSPHOLIPASE C GAMMA1; PODOCIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP 2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NRF1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SNAIL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SP1; WT1 PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CELL MATURATION; CEREBELLUM; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONGENITAL NEPHROTIC SYNDROME; CYTOSKELETON; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE CONTROL; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION; INTERNALIZATION; MOTOR CORTEX; MUTATION; NERVE CELL; PODOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN POLYMERIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PURKINJE CELL; RENAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; SENSORY CORTEX; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SLIT DIAPHRAGM;

ANIMALS; GA-BINDING PROTEIN TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; PODOCYTES;

EID: 84875984427     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfs522     Document Type: Article

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