Article
Fish mesonephric model of polycystic kidney disease in medaka (Oryzias latipes) pc mutant.
Kidney international - 1 Jul 2005
Mochizuki Emiko, Fukuta Katsuhiro, Tada Tatsuya, Harada Tomohiro, Watanabe Naoki, Matsuo Seiichi, Hashimoto Hisashi, Ozato Kenjiro, Wakamatsu Yuko
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Polycystic kidney disease (PKD) is a common hereditary disease. A number of murine and zebrafish mutants have been generated and used for the study of PKD as metanephric and pronephric models, respectively. Here, we report a medaka (Oryzias latipes) mutant that develops numerous cysts in the kidney in adulthood fish in an autosomal-recessive manner as a mesonephric model of PKD. METHODS: The...
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