Recent advances in elucidating the genetic mechanisms of nephrogenesis using zebrafish

Cells

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 218-233

  Cheng, Christina N ^a   Verdun, Valerie A ^a   Wingert, Rebecca A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

aPKC; Hnf1ba b; Kidney development; Mecom; Nephron segmentation; Renal progenitor; Sim1a; Tubulogenesis; Vertebrate; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

RETINOIC ACID;

EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; KIDNEY DEVELOPMENT; KIDNEY PROXIMAL TUBULE; KIDNEY TUBULE EPITHELIUM; NEPHROLOGY; NEPHRON; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PODOCYTE; PRONEPHROS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VERTEBRATE; ZEBRA FISH;

DANIO RERIO; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 85050580743     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/cells4020218     Document Type: Review

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