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Genetic background strongly influences the severity of glomerulosclerosis in mice.
The Journal of veterinary medical science - 1 Oct 2010
Nishino Tomohiro, Sasaki Nobuya, Nagasaki Ken-Ichi, Ahmad Zulkifli, Agui Takashi
Abstract excerpt
The ICGN mouse strain is a glomerulosclerosis (GS) model that shows characteristic proteinuria, podocyte morphological abnormalities and increased extracellular matrix accumulation in the glomeruli, which are the final common pathology associated with a variety of kidney diseases leading to end-stage renal failure. Previously, we performed a quantitative trait locus (QTL) analysis to identify the causative genes...
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