Word Search: IgA Nephropathy
In the December 2011 issue of American Journal of Kidney Diseases, Jurgen Floege discusses the novel development of pathogenesis of IgA Nephropathy. Test your knowledge with a word search. Clues to the answers are listed below the puzzle. The answers may be horizontal, vertical, diagonal or in reverse order.
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- Most patients with IgA nephropathy are clinically _____________(12)
- The most common loci associated with susceptibility to IgA nephropathy in British patients(5)
- Not the endothelium, not the epithelium, but the __________ (9)
- The single best established factor responsible for driving proliferation of mesangial cells in IgA nephropathy (4) (abbrv)
- IgA nephropathy is far more common in high socioeconomic groups like Japan, Northern Europe compared with _________ (4) , which is more common in low socio economic groups.
- This genus of bacteria is associated with development of IgA nephropathy (14)
- One of the reasons its hard to study IgA nephropathy in mice is because mice, unlike humans, lack an IgA ______(5) region.
- Patients with elevated circulating levels of IgA and mesangial deposits of secretory IgA most commonly present with _________( 9)
- IgA deposited in the glomerulus is most commonly composed of this light chain (5).
- The best known finding in IgA nephropathy is an elevation in circulating poorly __________________(14) IgA1 O-glycoforms.
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