Article
Podocyte process effacement in vivo
7 May 2002
Abstract excerpt
Foot process effacement is the most characteristic change in podocyte structure under a wide variety of human and experimental glomerulopathies with heavy proteinuria. It consists of simplification and even total disappearance of the interdigitating foot process pattern, resulting in the formation of a diffuse cytoplasmic sheet along the glomerular basement membrane. Although abundant evidence related to...
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