The emergence of the glomerular parietal epithelial cell

Nature Reviews Nephrology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 158-173

  Shankland, Stuart J ^a   Smeets, Bart ^b   Pippin, Jeffrey W ^a   Moeller, Marcus J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN;

CELL ACTIVATION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL RENEWAL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GLOMERULAR PARIETAL EPITHELIAL CELL; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; GLOMERULOPATHY; GLOMERULOSCLEROSIS; GLOMERULUS; HUMAN; KIDNEY CELL CULTURE; KIDNEY EPITHELIUM; PODOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; STEM CELL; ANIMAL; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; EPITHELIUM CELL; MESANGIUM CELL; PATHOLOGY;

ANIMALS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY GLOMERULUS; MESANGIAL CELLS; PODOCYTES; STEM CELLS;

EID: 84906537428     PISSN: 17595061     EISSN: 1759507X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrneph.2014.1     Document Type: Review

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