Animal models of renal disease.

Susztak, K; Bitzer, M; Meyer, T W; Hostetter, T H · Kidney Int · 2008

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Mice have become a favored species to model disease. Many mouse strains have proven relatively resistant to some manipulations that have generated renal disease in other species. Kirchhoff et al. describe a means of producing hypertension, proteinuria, and glomerular sclerosis in a mouse strain.

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