Zebrafish Renal Pathology: Emerging Models of Acute Kidney Injury

Current Pathobiology Reports

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 171-181

  McKee, Robert A ^a   Wingert, Rebecca A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute kidney injury; Nephron; Regeneration; Renal progenitor; Renal stem cell; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

EID: 84962675822     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2167485X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40139-015-0082-2     Document Type: Review

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