Fragility of foot process morphology in kidney podocytes arises from chaotic spatial propagation of cytoskeletal instability

Abstract excerpt

Kidney podocytes' function depends on fingerlike projections (foot processes) that interdigitate with those from neighboring cells to form the glomerular filtration barrier. The integrity of the barrier depends on spatial control of dynamics of actin cytoskeleton in the foot processes. We determined how imbalances in regulation of actin cytoskeletal dynamics could result in pathological morphology. We obtained...

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