The podocyte slit diaphragm - From a thin grey line to a complex signalling hub

Nature Reviews Nephrology

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 587-598

  Grahammer, Florian ^a   Schell, Christoph ^b   Huber, Tobias B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEPHRIN;

DIAPHRAGM; DROSOPHILA; ENDOCYTOSIS; GLOMERULOPATHY; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; NONHUMAN; PODOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEINURIA; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SLIT DIAPHRAGM; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION BARRIER; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR JUNCTIONS; PODOCYTES; RENAL INSUFFICIENCY, CHRONIC; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84884670045     PISSN: 17595061     EISSN: 1759507X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrneph.2013.169     Document Type: Review

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