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SUBMITTER: Reidy KJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3791681 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Reidy Kimberly J KJ Aggarwal Pardeep K PK Jimenez Juan J JJ Thomas David B DB Veron Delma D Tufro Alda A
The American journal of pathology 20130814 4
Semaphorin-3A (Sema3a), a guidance protein secreted by podocytes, is essential for normal kidney patterning and glomerular filtration barrier development. Here, we report that podocyte-specific Sema3a gain-of-function in adult mice leads to proteinuric glomerular disease involving the three layers of the glomerular filtration barrier. Reversibility of the glomerular phenotype upon removal of the transgene induction provided proof-of-principle of the cause-and-effect relationship between podocyte ...[more]