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Kidney Tubular Ablation of Ocrl/Inpp5b Phenocopies Lowe Syndrome Tubulopathy.
Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN - 1 May 2017
Inoue Kazunori, Balkin Daniel M, Liu Lijuan, Nandez Ramiro, Wu Yumei, Tian Xuefei, Wang Tong, Nussbaum Robert, De Camilli Pietro, Ishibe Shuta
Abstract excerpt
Lowe syndrome and Dent disease are two conditions that result from mutations of the inositol 5-phosphatase oculocerebrorenal syndrome of Lowe (OCRL) and share the feature of impaired kidney proximal tubule function. Genetic ablation of Ocrl in mice failed to recapitulate the human phenotypes, possibly because of the redundant functions of OCRL and its paralog type 2 inositol polyphosphate-5-phosphatase (INPP5B)....
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