Human Pathology
Volume 41, Issue 9 , Pages 1265-1275 , September 2010

Podocyte membrane vesicles in urine originate from tip vesiculation of podocyte microvilli

  • Masanori Hara, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pediatrics, Yoshida Hospital, Niigata 959-0242, Japan
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author.
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  • Toshio Yanagihara, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pediatrics, Yoshida Hospital, Niigata 959-0242, Japan
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  • Yoshiaki Hirayama

      Affiliations

    • Research and Development Department, Denka Seiken Co, Ltd, Gosen, Niigata 959-1695, Japan
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  • Shinya Ogasawara

      Affiliations

    • Research and Development Department, Denka Seiken Co, Ltd, Gosen, Niigata 959-1695, Japan
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  • Hiroyuki Kurosawa

      Affiliations

    • Research and Development Department, Denka Seiken Co, Ltd, Gosen, Niigata 959-1695, Japan
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  • Sakari Sekine

      Affiliations

    • Research and Development Department, Denka Seiken Co, Ltd, Gosen, Niigata 959-1695, Japan
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  • Itaru Kihara, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pathology, Yoshida Hospital, Niigata 959-0242, Japan

Received 6 December 2009 ,Revised 1 February 2010 ,Accepted 5 February 2010.

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 Portions of this study were presented as a poster at the 2007 and 2008 American Society of Nephrology national meeting, San Francisco, CA, and Philadelphia PA.

 Disclosure/conflict of interest: The authors declare no conflict of interest.

PII: S0046-8177(10)00068-7

doi: 10.1016/j.humpath.2010.02.004

Human Pathology
Volume 41, Issue 9 , Pages 1265-1275 , September 2010