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[Recent advances in molecular pathogenesis and treatment of polycystic kidney disease].
Revista medico-chirurgicala a Societatii de Medici si Naturalisti din Iasi - 1 Jan 2000
Covic M, Covic Maria
Abstract excerpt
Polycystic kidney diseases (PKD) are common genetic disorders characterized by formation and progressive enlargement of cysts kidney, liver and other organs, leading to end stage renal disease. Regardless of the genetic defect underlying PKD, cystic epithelia seem to display common abnormalities: increased proliferation and apoptosis, loss of cellular differentiation and polarity, hypersecretion. The localization...
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