title: Update in podocyte biology.
abstract: Knowledge of podocyte biology is growing rapidly. Podocytes are crucially involved in most hereditary diseases affecting the glomerulus, which all exhibit podocyte-specific defects, that is, foot process effacement and protein leakage. Efforts to understand molecular mechanisms causing these derangements are increasingly successful and will allow a better targeting of interventions to halt the progression of chronic renal disease.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Endlich
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Kriz
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Witzgall
mesh_terms: D004847:Epithelial Cells / Q000473:pathology / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D007674:Kidney Diseases / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology; D007678:Kidney Glomerulus / Q000473:pathology / Q000502:physiology