Few other aspects of food supply and metabolism are of greater biological importance than
the feeding of mothers during pregnancy and lactation, and of their infants and young …

A seamless plasticity exists among cells shifting between epithelial and mesenchymal
phenotypes during early development and again later, in adult tissues, following wound …

Clonal cell lines representing different developmental stages of the metanephric
mesenchyme were made from transgenic mice with the Simian Virus 40 T-antigen (SV40 …

Midkine (MK) is a heparin-binding growth factor involved in diverse biological phenomena,
eg neuronal survival, carcinogenesis, and tissue repair. ME expression is detected mainly in …

Over the past 10 years growing interest has been focused on apoptosis as a potential
mechanism of renal damage operating during the development and the progression of …

Expression of a cut-related homeobox gene in developing and polycystic mouse kidney. cut
is a diverged homeobox gene that is essential for normal development of the Malpighian …

The purpose of this study was to compare the immunofluorescence patterns of autophagic
markers: Light chain 3 beta (LC3B), Glucose regulating protein 78 (GRP78), Heat shock …

Although congenital nephropathies and uropathies only represent a fraction of possible
genitourinary diseases detected during childhood, they have serious and sometimes …

Apoptosis, or programmed cell death, is an evolutionarily conserved and highly regulated
process of nonfunctional cell death. Through this process, the body disposes of unwanted …

Cux-1 is a murine homeobox gene that is highly and transiently expressed in the developing
kidney. To further evaluate the role of Cux-1 in mammalian kidney development, organotypic …