{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2026,5,14]],"date-time":"2026-05-14T00:32:30Z","timestamp":1778718750710,"version":"3.51.4"},"reference-count":14,"publisher":"Wiley","issue":"7","license":[{"start":{"date-parts":[[2014,6,16]],"date-time":"2014-06-16T00:00:00Z","timestamp":1402876800000},"content-version":"vor","delay-in-days":0,"URL":"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/termsAndConditions#vor"}],"content-domain":{"domain":["onlinelibrary.wiley.com"],"crossmark-restriction":true},"short-container-title":["Nephrology"],"published-print":{"date-parts":[[2014,7]]},"abstract":"<jats:title>Abstract<\/jats:title><jats:sec><jats:title>Aim<\/jats:title><jats:p>The current study was designed to observe the ultrastructural changes of podocyte foot processes during the remission phase and its relationship with the amount of the proteinuria in patients with minimal change disease (<jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">MCD<\/jats:styled-content>).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>Electron micrographs of glomerular capillaries were taken from 33 adult cases with <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">MCD<\/jats:styled-content>, including 12 cases with nephrotic syndrome, 15 cases in partial remission and six cases in complete remission. The foot processes were classified into three grades by the ratio of the height to basal width: 0.5\u20131, 1\u20132 and \u22652. The foot process width (<jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">FPW<\/jats:styled-content>) and the number of foot processes in different grades per 10\u2009\u03bcm of glomerular basement membrane (<jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">GBM<\/jats:styled-content>) were measured. Normal renal tissues from 12 nephrectomies for renal carcinoma were selected as controls.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>There were statistical differences (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.001) in the mean <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">FPW<\/jats:styled-content> among the nephrotic group (1566.4\u2009\u00b1\u2009429.4\u2009nm), partial remission group (1007.8\u2009\u00b1\u2009234.9\u2009nm), complete remission group (949.8\u2009\u00b1\u2009168.2\u2009nm) and normal controls (471.9\u2009\u00b1\u200951.8\u2009nm). For the height\u2010to\u2010width ratio \u22652, the number of foot process per 10\u2009\u03bcm <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">GBM<\/jats:styled-content> was significantly greater in the normal group than that in the complete remission group (0.84\u2009\u00b1\u20090.24 vs. 3.84\u2009\u00b1\u20091.80, <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.016). Taking all three groups of patients together, the mean <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">FPW<\/jats:styled-content> showed correlation with the level of proteinuria (r\u2009=\u20090.506, <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.003).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title><jats:p>There may be no causal relationship between proteinuria and foot process effacement. In complete remission phase, both <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">FPW<\/jats:styled-content> and shape of foot process had not returned to normal while proteinuria disappeared.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1111\/nep.12256","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2014,4,1]],"date-time":"2014-04-01T13:07:43Z","timestamp":1396357663000},"page":"392-397","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":19,"title":["Ultrastructural changes of podocyte foot processes during the remission phase of minimal change disease of human kidney"],"prefix":"10.1111","volume":"19","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7544-9150","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Xiao\u2010Jing","family":"Liu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Renal Division Peking University First Hospital  Beijing China"},{"name":"Institute of Nephrology Peking University  Beijing China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Renal Disease Ministry of Health of China  Beijing China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of CKD Prevention and Treatment Ministry of Education of China  Beijing China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yi\u2010Miao","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Renal Division Peking University First Hospital  Beijing China"},{"name":"Institute of Nephrology Peking University  Beijing China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Renal Disease Ministry of Health of China  Beijing China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of CKD Prevention and Treatment Ministry of Education of China  Beijing China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Su\u2010Xia","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electron Microscopy Peking University First Hospital  Beijing China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Gang","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Renal Division Peking University First Hospital  Beijing China"},{"name":"Institute of Nephrology Peking University  Beijing China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Renal Disease Ministry of Health of China  Beijing China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of CKD Prevention and Treatment Ministry of Education of China  Beijing China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"311","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2014,6,16]]},"reference":[{"key":"e_1_2_6_2_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/S0272-6386(97)90485-6"},{"key":"e_1_2_6_3_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1159\/000180616"},{"key":"e_1_2_6_4_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1111\/j.1523-1755.2004.00964.x"},{"key":"e_1_2_6_5_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1038\/ki.2008.413"},{"key":"e_1_2_6_6_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1111\/j.1365-2818.1977.tb00062.x"},{"key":"e_1_2_6_7_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1007\/BF00234450"},{"key":"e_1_2_6_8_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1007\/BF00422369"},{"key":"e_1_2_6_9_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1038\/ki.1987.268"},{"key":"e_1_2_6_10_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1172\/JCI119163"},{"key":"e_1_2_6_11_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1084\/jem.106.5.649"},{"key":"e_1_2_6_12_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.7326\/0003-4819-49-4-775"},{"key":"e_1_2_6_13_1","first-page":"303","article-title":"Pathogenesis of experimental nephrosis electron microscopic observations","volume":"36","author":"Harkin JC","year":"1960","journal-title":"Am. J. Pathol."},{"key":"e_1_2_6_14_1","first-page":"643","article-title":"Electron microscopic studies on the development of the glomerular lesions in aminonucleoside nephrosis","volume":"39","author":"Ericsson JL","year":"1961","journal-title":"Am. J. Pathol."},{"key":"e_1_2_6_15_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1681\/ASN.2006060628"}],"container-title":["Nephrology"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/api.wiley.com\/onlinelibrary\/tdm\/v1\/articles\/10.1111%2Fnep.12256","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"},{"URL":"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/pdf\/10.1111\/nep.12256","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2023,10,2]],"date-time":"2023-10-02T13:43:27Z","timestamp":1696254207000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/nep.12256"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2014,6,16]]},"references-count":14,"journal-issue":{"issue":"7","published-print":{"date-parts":[[2014,7]]}},"alternative-id":["10.1111\/nep.12256"],"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/nep.12256","archive":["Portico"],"relation":{},"ISSN":["1320-5358","1440-1797"],"issn-type":[{"value":"1320-5358","type":"print"},{"value":"1440-1797","type":"electronic"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2014,6,16]]},"assertion":[{"value":"2014-03-24","order":1,"name":"accepted","label":"Accepted","group":{"name":"publication_history","label":"Publication History"}},{"value":"2014-06-16","order":2,"name":"published","label":"Published","group":{"name":"publication_history","label":"Publication History"}}]}}