Update in podocyte biology
- 1 May 2001
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Current Opinion in Nephrology and Hypertension
- Vol. 10 (3) , 331-340
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00041552-200105000-00006
Abstract
Knowledge of podocyte biology is growing rapidly. Podocytes are crucially involved in most hereditary diseases affecting the glomerulus, which all exhibit podocyte-specific defects, that is, foot process effacement and protein leakage. Efforts to understand molecular mechanisms causing these derangements are increasingly successful and will allow a better targeting of interventions to halt the progression of chronic renal disease.Keywords
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