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Pediatric Nephrology

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In the last few decades, considerable advances have been made in understanding kidney development (1, 2). In previous years, this process was described in purely anatomic terms, but we can now interpret the anatomy in terms of dynamic morphogenesis, or acquisition of form, driven by the expression of specific genes. Although our long-term aim is to understand human kidney development, most functional studies have been performed in mice and therefore these animal experiments are described in some detail.

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    Adrian S. Woolf & Jolanta E. Pitera

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  1. Medical College of Wisconsin, Wisconsin, USA

    Ellis Avner (Director, Children's Research Institute, CHHS, Associate Dean for Research, Professor of Pediatrics and Physiology) (Director, Children's Research Institute, CHHS, Associate Dean for Research, Professor of Pediatrics and Physiology)

  2. Harvard Medical School, Children's Hospital Boston, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115, USA

    William Harmon (Professor of Pediatrics, Director, Pediatric Nephrology) (Professor of Pediatrics, Director, Pediatric Nephrology)

  3. Service de Néphrologie Pédiatrique Centre de référence des Maladies Rénales Héréditaires de l'Enfant et de l'Adulte (MARHEA), Hôpital Necker‐Enfants Malades, 149, rue de Sèvres, 75743, Paris Cedex 15, France

    Patrick Niaudet

  4. Department of Pediatrics Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama Medical University Hospital, 641–8510811–1, Kimiidera, Wakayama City, Japan

    Norishige Yoshikawa (Professor and Chair Pediatrician‐in‐Chief) (Professor and Chair Pediatrician‐in‐Chief)

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Woolf, A.S., Pitera, J.E. (2009). Embryology. In: Avner, E., Harmon, W., Niaudet, P., Yoshikawa, N. (eds) Pediatric Nephrology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-76341-3_1

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