The kidney : from normal development to congenital diseases /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Vize, Peter D., Woolf, Adrian S., Bard, Johnathan B. L.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Boston : Academic Press, [2003]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : embryonic kidneys and other nephrogenic models
  • Development of malpighain tubules in Drosophila melanogaster
  • Induction, development and physiology of the pronephric tubules
  • Formation of the nephric duct
  • The pronephric glomus and vasculature
  • Development of the mesonephric kidney
  • Three-dimensional anatomy of mammalian mesonephroi
  • Molecular control of pronephric development : an overview
  • Embryological, genetic and molecular tools for investigating embryonic kidney development
  • The metanephros
  • Anatomy and histology of the human urinary system
  • Development of the ureteric bud
  • Fates of the metanephric mesenchyme
  • Formation and development of nephrons
  • Establishment of polarity in epithelial cells of the developing nephron
  • Development of the glomerular capillary and its basement membrane
  • Development of kidney blood vessels
  • Development of function in the metanephric kidney
  • Experimental methods for studying urogenital development
  • Overview : the molecular basis of kidney development
  • Maldevelopment of the human kidney and lower urinary tract : an overview
  • WTI-associated disorders
  • PAX2 and renal-coloboma syndrome
  • Cystic renal diseases
  • Renal cell carcinoma : the human disease
  • The tubule
  • Diseases of the glomerular filtration barrier : Alport syndrome and congenital nephrosis (NPHS1)
  • Congenital kidney diseases : prospects for new therapies