Genetics of human congenital urinary bladder disease

Pediatric Nephrology

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 353-360

  Woolf, Adrian S ^a,b,c   Stuart, Helen M ^a,b,d   Newman, William G ^a,b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL MANCHESTER CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Exstrophy; Nerve; Prune belly; Smooth muscle; Syndrome; Urofacial; Urothelium

Indexed keywords

ACTINS; ANIMALS; BLADDER EXSTROPHY; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FACIES; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GLUCURONIDASE; HEPATOCYTE NUCLEAR FACTOR 1-BETA; HUMANS; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MICE; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PRUNE BELLY SYNDROME; RECEPTOR, MUSCARINIC M3; RISK FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEINS; URINARY BLADDER; URINARY BLADDER DISEASES; UROLOGIC DISEASES;

EID: 84894249279     PISSN: 0931041X     EISSN: 1432198X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00467-013-2472-1     Document Type: Review

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