Vesa Ruotsalainen

Positionally Cloned Gene for a Novel Glomerular Protein—Nephrin—Is Mutated in Congenital Nephrotic Syndrome

Marjo Kestilä, Ulla Lenkkeri, Minna Männikkö et al. · Molecular Cell · 1998 · 1.9K citations · Full text

Medicine, Genetics, Molecular Genetics +12

Nephrin is specifically located at the slit diaphragm of glomerular podocytes

Vesa Ruotsalainen, Päivi Ljungberg, Jorma Wartiovaara et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1999 · 762 citations

Medicine, Molecular Biology, Nephrology +16

Loss-of-function mutations in TYROBP (DAP12) result in a presenile dementia with bone cysts

Juha Paloneva, Marjo Kestilä, Jun Wu et al. · Nature Genetics · 2000 · 472 citations

Medicine, Genetics, Neurology +15

Nephrin Expression Is Reduced in Human Diabetic Nephropathy

Sophie Doublier, Gennaro Salvidio, Enrico Lupia et al. · Diabetes · 2003 · 345 citations · Full text

Medicine, Nephrology, Pathology +17

Nephrin strands contribute to a porous slit diaphragm scaffold as revealed by electron tomography

Jorma Wartiovaara, Lars‐Göran Öfverstedt, Jamshid Khoshnoodi et al. · Journal of Clinical Investigation · 2004 · 312 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Cell Biology, Developmental Biology +13