Factors associated with a vicious cycle involving a low nephron number, hypertension and chronic kidney disease

Hypertension Research

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 633-641

  Kanzaki, Go ^a   Tsuboi, Nobuo ^a   Haruhara, Kotaro ^a   Koike, Kentaro ^a   Ogura, Makoto ^a   Shimizu, Akira ^b   Yokoo, Takashi ^a  

^a JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

chronic kidney disease; glomerular density; glomerular volume; nephron number

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ELEVATED BLOOD PRESSURE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY INJURY; METABOLIC DISORDER; MIDDLE AGED; NEPHRON; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; RAT; REVIEW; YOUNG ADULT; ANIMAL; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; DISEASE COURSE; KIDNEY FUNCTION TEST; PATHOLOGY; RENOVASCULAR HYPERTENSION; RISK FACTOR;

ANIMALS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, RENAL; KIDNEY FUNCTION TESTS; NEPHRONS; RENAL INSUFFICIENCY, CHRONIC; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84943147808     PISSN: 09169636     EISSN: 13484214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/hr.2015.67     Document Type: Review

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