First Components Found for Key Kidney Filter
@article{Wickelgren1999FirstCF, title={First Components Found for Key Kidney Filter}, author={I. Wickelgren}, journal={Science}, year={1999}, volume={286}, pages={225 - 226} }
Researchers have for the first time identified protein components of the filter, known as the "slit diaphragm," that prevents proteins from leaking into the urine from the capillaries of the glomeruli, the tiny globes of kidney tissue where the urine is formed. Kidney specialists are hailing the discoveries, one of which is described on page
312, because they may help them understand both normal kidney function and also provide therapeutic targets for a class of kidney diseases-those… CONTINUE READING
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