Genetic kidney diseases: Caenorhabditis elegans as model system

Cell and Tissue Research

Volumn 369, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 105-118

  Ganner, Athina ^a   Neumann Haefelin, Elke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aging; Caenorhabditis elegans; Cilia; Genetic kidney disease; Podocyte morphogenesis

Indexed keywords

AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE POLYCYSTIC KIDNEY DISEASE; BARDET BIEDL SYNDROME; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CILIOPATHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE MODEL; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC KIDNEY DISEASE; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; HEREDITARY TUMOR SYNDROME; HUMAN; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; KIDNEY DEVELOPMENT; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; KIDNEY TUBULE EXCRETION; NEPHRONOPHTHISIS; NEPHROTIC SYNDROME; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PENETRANCE; PODOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ANIMAL; GENETICS; METABOLISM;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; HUMANS; KIDNEY DISEASES, CYSTIC;

EID: 85019027989     PISSN: 0302766X     EISSN: 14320878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00441-017-2622-z     Document Type: Review

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