Cilia and centrosomes: a unifying pathogenic concept for cystic kidney disease?

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Cystic kidney diseases are among the most frequent lethal genetic diseases. Positional cloning of novel cystic kidney disease genes revealed that their products (cystoproteins) are expressed in sensory organelles called primary cilia, in basal bodies or in centrosomes. Primary cilia link mechanosensory, visual, osmotic, gustatory and other stimuli to mechanisms of cell-cycle control and epithelial cell polarity....

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