Urinary tract pacemaker cells: Current knowledge and insights from nonrenal pacemaker cells provide a basis for future discovery

Pediatric Nephrology

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 629-635

  Feeney, Meghan M ^a,b   Rosenblum, Norman D ^a,b,c  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

c kit; Embryonic kidney development; HCN3; Hedgehog signaling; Ureteric pacemaker cell

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 30; CONNEXIN 43; CRE RECOMBINASE; HYPERPOLARIZATION ACTIVATED CYCLIC NUCLEOTIDE GATED CHANNEL; HYPERPOLARIZATION ACTIVATED CYCLIC NUCLEOTIDE GATED CHANNEL 3; MESSENGER RNA; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAIN; PROTEIN PATCHED 1; SMOOTHENED PROTEIN; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; STEM CELL FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NKX2.5; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR T BET; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIMENTIN;

ACTION POTENTIAL; CELL FUNCTION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL MATURATION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL POPULATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE COURSE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; HEART ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODE; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMAN; HYDRONEPHROSIS; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INTESTINE; KIDNEY CELL; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY PELVIS; NEURAL CREST CELL; NEUROFILAMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINUS NODE; URETER; URETER PERISTALSIS; URETERIC PACEMAKER CELL;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; HYPERPOLARIZATION-ACTIVATED CYCLIC NUCLEOTIDE-GATED CHANNELS; PERISTALSIS; URINARY TRACT;

EID: 84896722198     PISSN: 0931041X     EISSN: 1432198X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00467-013-2631-4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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