The role of the podocyte in albumin filtration

Nature Reviews Nephrology

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 328-336

  Brinkkoetter, Paul Thomas ^a   Ising, Christina ^a   Benzing, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; ALPHA ACTININ 4; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE 5; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN; MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN COMPLEX 1; MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN COMPLEX 2; NEPHRIN; PODOCIN; PROTEIN P35; RHOA GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL CHANNEL 5; TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL CHANNEL 6;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ACTIN POLYMERIZATION; ALBUMINURIA; AUTOPHAGOSOME; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CELL FUNCTION; CELL JUNCTION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL MOTILITY; CELL POLARITY; CELL RENEWAL; CELL SURVIVAL; CHANNEL GATING; CONGENITAL NEPHROTIC SYNDROME; DENYS DRASH SYNDROME; FOCAL GLOMERULOSCLEROSIS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE PRODUCT; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION BARRIER; GLOMERULOPATHY; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION; HEREDITARY MOTOR SENSORY NEUROPATHY; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HUMAN; HYDRODYNAMICS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PODOCYTE; PRESSURE SENSATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEINURIA; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ALBUMINURIA; ANIMALS; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION BARRIER; HUMANS; PODOCYTES; SERUM ALBUMIN;

EID: 84878619489     PISSN: 17595061     EISSN: 1759507X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrneph.2013.78     Document Type: Review

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