title: New Insights into Podocyte Biology in Glomerular Health and Disease.
abstract: Podocyte and glomerular research is center stage for the development of improved preventive and therapeutic strategies for chronic progressive kidney diseases. Held April 3-6, 2016, the 11th International Podocyte Conference took place in Haifa and Jerusalem, Israel, where participants from all over the world presented their work on new developments in podocyte research. In this review, we briefly highlight the advances made in characterizing the mechanisms involved in podocyte development, metabolism, acquired injury, and repair, including progress in determining the roles of genetic variants and microRNA in particular, as well as the advances made in diagnostic techniques and therapeutics.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel.|Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
authors.forename: Suheir
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Assady
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine IV, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.
authors.forename: Nicola
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Wanner
authors.affiliation: Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel; skorecki@tx.technion.ac.il t.huber@uke.de.|Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
authors.forename: Karl L
authors.initials: KL
authors.lastname: Skorecki
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine IV, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany; skorecki@tx.technion.ac.il t.huber@uke.de.|BIOSS-Centre for Biological Signalling Studies and.|III. Medizinische Klinik, Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.|ZBSA-Center for Biological Systems Analysis, Albert Ludwigs University, Freiburg, Germany; and.
authors.forename: Tobias B
authors.initials: TB
authors.lastname: Huber
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D035843:Biomedical Research; D006801:Humans; D007674:Kidney Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy; D007678:Kidney Glomerulus / Q000502:physiology*; D035683:MicroRNAs / Q000502:physiology; D050199:Podocytes / Q000502:physiology* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D015398:Signal Transduction; D013234:Stem Cells
chemical_list: D035683:MicroRNAs
keywords: glomerular basement membrane; glomerular disease; podocyte; slit diaphragm