Article
A Comparative Presentation of Mouse Models That Recapitulate Most Features of Alport Syndrome.
Genes - 18 Oct 2022
Nikolaou Stavros, Deltas Constantinos
Abstract excerpt
Alport syndrome is a hereditary kidney disease caused by mutations in the three genes encoding for collagen IV: COL4A3, COL4A4, and COL4A5. Several mouse models have been created for the study of this disease with variable phenotypic outcomes. This review is an up-to-date presentation of the current mouse models existing in the literature with a detailed comparison of the phenotypic features characterizing each...
Topics
- Mice
- Animals
- Humans
- Nephritis, Hereditary
- Collagen Type IV
- Disease Models, Animal
- Mutation
