Chaozhe Yang, Naoe Harafuji, Ljubica Caldovic, Weiying Yu, Ravindra Boddu, Surajit Bhattacharya, Hayk Barseghyan, Heather Gordish-Dressman, Oded Foreman, Zsuzsa Bebok, Eva M Eicher, Lisa M Guay-Woodford
Autosomal-recessive polycystic kidney disease (ARPKD; MIM #263200) is a severe, hereditary, hepato-renal fibrocystic disorder that causes early childhood morbidity and mortality. Mutations in the polycystic kidney and hepatic disease 1 (PKHD1) gene, which encodes the protein fibrocystin/polyductin complex (FPC), cause all typical forms of ARPKD. Several mouse lines carrying diverse, genetically engineered disruptions in the orthologous Pkhd1 gene have been generated, but none expresses the classic ARPKD renal phenotype...
August 16, 2023: Journal of Molecular Medicine: Official Organ of the "Gesellschaft Deutscher Naturforscher und Ärzte"