Podocyte autophagy is associated with foot process effacement and proteinuria in patients with minimal change nephrotic syndrome

• Ayu Ogawa-Akiyama,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Rheumatology, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan

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• Hitoshi Sugiyama ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: hitoshis@okayama-u.ac.jp

  Affiliation Department of Human Resource Development of Dialysis Therapy for Kidney Disease, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4127-6471

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• Masashi Kitagawa,

  Roles Formal analysis, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Rheumatology, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan

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• Keiko Tanaka,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliations Department of Nephrology, Rheumatology, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan, Department of Molecular Life Sciences, Tokai University School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan

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• Yuzuki Kano,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Rheumatology, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan

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• Koki Mise,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Rheumatology, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan

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• Nozomu Otaka,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Human Resource Development of Dialysis Therapy for Kidney Disease, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan

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• Katsuyuki Tanabe,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Rheumatology, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4767-5892

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• Hiroshi Morinaga,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Division of Medical Informatics, Okayama University Hospital, Okayama, Japan

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• Masaru Kinomura,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Rheumatology, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan

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• Haruhito A. Uchida,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Chronic Kidney Disease and Cardiovascular Disease, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan

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• Jun Wada

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Rheumatology, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan

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