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Title

Molecular and genetic basis of renal disease / [edited by] David B. Mount, Martin R. Pollak.

Publication

Philadelphia : Saunders/Elsevier, [2008], ©2008.

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Additional Authors

• Mount, David B.
• Pollak, Martin R.

Description

xi, 582 pages, 5 pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 29 cm

Summary

"This companion volume to Brenner & Rector's The Kidney offers a summary of the most recent advances in renal genetics, equipping you with the clinically relevant knowledge you need to determine the best treatments for your patients."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Kidneys > Molecular aspects
• Kidneys > Genetic aspects
• Kidney Diseases > genetics
• Kidney Diseases > physiopathology
• Genetic Predisposition to Disease
• Molecular Biology > methods

Note

• "A companion to Brenner & Rector's The kidney"--Cover.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Sect. 1. The Tools of Molecular Nephrology -- 1. The Impact of Molecular Genetics on Nephrology / Martin R. Pollak and David B. Mount -- 2. Manipulation of the Mouse Genome: Studying Renal Function and Disease / Alexander Gawlik and Susan E. Quaggin -- 3. Cardiorenal Physiology of the Mouse: From Loss of Genome to Gain of Phenome / Jurgen Schnermann, John N. Lorenz and Josephine P. Briggs -- 4. Murine Models of Kidney Development / Jordan A. Kreidberg -- Sect. 2. Genetic Disorders of Renal Growth and Structure -- 5. Hereditary Disorders of Renal and Urogenital Development / Susan M. Kiefer, Sabina M. Hussain and Michael Rauchman -- 6. Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease / Jing Zholl and York Pei -- 7. Autosomal Recessive Polycystic Kidney Disease / Peter C. Harris and Vicente E. Torres -- 8. Pathogenesis of Nephronophthisis and Medullary Cystic Kidney Disease / Thomas Benzing and Gerd Walz -- Sect. 3. Genetic Disorders of Renal Function -- 9. Inherited Nephroses / Astrid Weins and Martin R. Pollak -- 10. Molecular and Genetic Basis of Alport Syndrome / Sai Ram Keithi-Reddy and Raghu Kalluri -- 11. Nail-Patella Syndrome / Ralph Witzgall -- 12. The Primary Hyperoxalurias: Molecular and Clinical Insights / Carla G. Monico, Gillian Rumbsy and Dawn S. Milliner -- 13. Fabry Disease / James A. Shayman and Paul D. Killen -- 14. Hereditary Disorders of the Proximal Tubule / Charles Y. Kwon and David B. Mount -- 15. Hereditary Disorders of the Thick Ascending Limb and Distal Convoluted Tubule / Martin Konrad, Rodo O. von Vigier and Siegfried Waldegger -- 16. Hereditary Disorders of Collecting Duct Sodium and Potassium Transport / David H. Ellison and Christie P. Thomas -- 17. Hereditary Renal Tubular Acidosis / Christine E. Kurschat and Seth L. Alper -- 18. Hereditary Causes of Nephrogenic Diabetes Insipidus / Peter M. T. Deen, Joris H. Robben and Nine V. A. M. Knoers -- 19. Genetic Disorders of Calcium and Phosphate Homeostasis / Harald W. Juppner and Rajesh V. Thakker -- 20. Genetics and Renal Pathophysiology of Essential Hypertension / Pedro A. Jose, John E. Jones, Scott M. Williams, Gilbert M. Eisner and Robin A. Felder -- Sect. 4. Acquired and Polygenic Renal Disease -- 21. Molecular Mechanisms of Proteinuria / J. Ashley Jefferson and Stuart J. Shankland -- 22. Diabetic Nephropathy / Matthew Breyer and Raymond Harris -- 23. Pathogenesis of HIV-Associated Nephropathy / Michael J. Ross and Paul E. Klotman -- 24. Pathogenesis of Paraproteinernic Renal Disease / Paul W. Sanders -- 25. Preeclampsia / Sharon E. Maynard and S. Ananth Kariunanchi -- 26. Molecular Insights into the Thrombotic Microangiopathies / Charles C. Matouk and Philip A. Marsden -- 27. The Molecular Basis of IgA Nephropathy / Stephen I-Hong Hsu and John Feehally -- 28. Glomerulonephritis Caused by Anti-neutrophil Cytoplasmic Autoantibodies / Gloria A. Preston and Ronald J. Falk -- 29. Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and the Kidney / Vicki Rubin Kelly, Laurence Morel and Mary H. Foster -- 30. Molecular and Genetic Aspects of Ischemic Acute Kidney Injury / Joseph V. Bonventre.

ISBN

• 9781416002529 (alk. paper)
• 1416002529 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2006036125

OCLC

• ocm74941634
• 74941634
• SCSB-5378837

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries