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Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation 2008 23(8):2688-2689; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfn227
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Coiled-coiled domains as a mechanism to stop haemorrhage after renal biopsies

Bernhard Pilz, Ralph Kettritz, Marcus Bieringer and Friedrich C. Luft

Franz-Volhard Clinic, Medical Faculty of the Charité, HELIOS Klinikum-Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Correspondence and offprint requests to: Friedrich C. Luft, Schwanebecker Chausee 50, Berlin 13125, Germany. E-mail: luft@charite.de; fluft@berlin.helios-kliniken.de

Keywords: coils; complications of kidney biopsy; embolization; renal biopsy

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   Introduction
 
Nephrocystin (NPHP1), the gene for nephronophthisis type 1, is a protein featuring a coiled-coil domain [1]. The coiled coil is a common structural motif formed by ~3–5% of all amino acids in proteins [2]. Nowadays, it is vital that busy nephrologists know such things. We recently were faced with a nephrological process that also . . . [Full Text of this Article]



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