New insights into functions, regulation, and pathological roles of tight junctions in kidney tubular epithelium

International Review of Cell and Molecular Biology

Volumn 308, Issue , 2014, Pages 205-271

  Szaszi, Katalin ^a,b   Amoozadeh, Yasaman ^a,b  

^a ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Claudins; Epithelial functions; Fluid and ion transport in the kidney; Intercellular junctions; Kidney disease; Small GTPase proteins; Tubulointerstitial inflammation

Indexed keywords

CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; TIGHT JUNCTION PROTEIN;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY EPITHELIUM; KIDNEY TUBULE; KIDNEY TUBULE EPITHELIUM; NEPHRITIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PDZ DOMAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; REPERFUSION INJURY; TIGHT JUNCTION; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; EPITHELIUM; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY;

ANIMALS; EPITHELIUM; HUMANS; KIDNEY TUBULES; TIGHT JUNCTIONS;

EID: 84892186115     PISSN: 19376448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-800097-7.00006-3     Document Type: Chapter

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