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- Title
Contribution of the endothelium to the glomerular permselectivity barrier in health and disease.
- Authors
Ballermann, Barbara J
- Abstract
The endothelium that lines glomerular capillaries shares many properties with endothelial cells in general, but unlike most endothelial cells, it is extremely flat and densely perforated by transendothelial cell pores, the fenestrae. Until recently, it was believed that the fenestrae allow free passage of large proteins, and that the glomerular endothelium contributes little to the permselectivity of the glomerular capillary wall.
- Publication
Nephron. Physiology, 2007, Vol 106, Issue 2, pp19
- ISSN
1660-2137
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1159/000101796