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Wilhelm Kriz is affiliated with Heidelberg University in Germany and has contributed extensively to research in the field of medicine, with a primary focus on nephrology. Their scientific work spans multiple subfields including endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism, molecular biology, biomedical engineering, and pulmonary and respiratory medicine.

The research topics predominantly explored by Kriz include chronic kidney disease and diabetes, renal diseases and glomerulopathies, blood properties and coagulation, advanced glycation end products research, diabetes treatment and management, biomedical research and pathophysiology, and renal and related cancers.

Kriz has published in several well-regarded scientific venues, notably:

  • Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
  • Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation
  • American Journal of Physiology-Renal Physiology
  • American Journal Of Pathology
  • UNC Libraries

Their recent publications feature a range of topics relevant to kidney pathology and nephrology, including:

  • The complex pathology of diabetic nephropathy in humans, 2023, Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation
  • Mesangial Injury and Capillary Ballooning Precede Podocyte Damage in Nephrosclerosis, 2022, American Journal Of Pathology

Kriz also co-authored important papers alongside other researchers in related areas, with frequent collaboration partners including Hermann-Josef Gröne, Karlhans Endlich, Alexander Fuhrmann, Balázs Pritz, and Jana Löwen.

This collaborative network supports work that investigates molecular and cellular mechanisms of renal diseases and their systemic effects, contributing to understanding diabetic nephropathy and microanatomical changes in kidney function.

Best Publications

  • Cell Biology of the Glomerular Podocyte

    Hermann Pavenstädt;Wilhelm Kriz;Matthias Kretzler

  • Rearrangements of the cytoskeleton and cell contacts induce process formation during differentiation of conditionally immortalized mouse podocyte cell lines

    Peter Mundel;Jochen Reiser;Aimée Zúñiga Mejı́a Borja;Hermann Pavenstädt

  • The Dysregulated Podocyte Phenotype A Novel Concept in the Pathogenesis of Collapsing Idiopathic Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis and HIV-Associated Nephropathy

    Laura Barisoni;Wilhelm Kriz;Peter Mundel;Peter Mundel;Vivette D'agati

  • Synaptopodin: An Actin-associated Protein in Telencephalic Dendrites and Renal Podocytes

    Peter Mundel;Hans W. Heid;Thomas M. Mundel;Meike Krüger

  • Failed Tubule Recovery, AKI-CKD Transition, and Kidney Disease Progression

    Manjeri A. Venkatachalam;Joel M. Weinberg;Wilhelm Kriz;Anil K. Bidani

  • Antibodies against Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Improve Early Renal Dysfunction in Experimental Diabetes

    An S. De Vriese;Ronald G. Tilton;Marlies Elger;Clifford C. Stephan

  • Pathways to nephron loss starting from glomerular diseases : Insights from animal models

    Wilhelm Kriz;Michel Lehir;Michel Lehir

  • Epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) in kidney fibrosis: fact or fantasy?

    Wilhelm Kriz;Brigitte Kaissling;Michel Le Hir

  • The Glomerular Slit Diaphragm Is a Modified Adherens Junction

    Jochen Reiser;Wilhelm Kriz;Matthias Kretzler;Peter Mundel

  • Structural Analysis of the Rabbit Kidney

    Brigitte Kaissling;Wilhelm Kriz

  • Recruitment of Podocytes from Glomerular Parietal Epithelial Cells

    Daniel Appel;David B. Kershaw;Bart Smeets;Bart Smeets;Gang Yuan

  • The current potential of plastination

    Gunther von Hagens;Klaus Tiedemann;Wilhelm Kriz

  • Mineralocorticoid receptor knockout mice: Pathophysiology of Na+ metabolism

    Stefan Berger;Markus Bleich;Wolfgang Schmid;Timothy J. Cole;Timothy J. Cole

  • Expression of nitric oxide synthase in kidney macula densa cells.

    Peter Mundel;Peter Mundel;Sebastian Bachmann;Sebastian Bachmann;Michael Bader;Michael Bader;Axel Fischer;Axel Fischer

  • A standard nomenclature for structures of the kidney. The Renal Commission of the International Union of Physiological Sciences (IUPS).

    W Kriz;L Bankir

  • Expression of the conjugate export pump encoded by the mrp2 gene in the apical membrane of kidney proximal tubules.

    Thomas P. Schaub;Jurgen Kartenbeck;Jorg Konig;Olga Vogel

  • Podocytes Respond to Mechanical Stress In Vitro

    Nicole Endlich;Kai R Kress;Jochen Reiser;Dietmar Uttenweiler

  • The podocyte's response to stress: the enigma of foot process effacement.

    Wilhelm Kriz;Isao Shirato;Michio Nagata;Michel LeHir

  • An efficient and versatile system for acute and chronic modulation of renal tubular function in transgenic mice

    Milena Traykova-Brauch;Kai Schönig;Oliver Greiner;Tewfik Miloud

  • THE TIE2-LIGAND ANGIOPOIETIN-2 IS STORED IN AND RAPIDLY RELEASED UPON STIMULATION FROM ENDOTHELIAL CELL WEIBEL-PALADE BODIES

    Ulrike Fiedler;Marion Scharpfenecker;Stefanie Koidl;Anja Hegen

Frequent Co-Authors

Norbert Gretz
Norbert Gretz Heidelberg University
Peter Mundel
Peter Mundel Harvard University
Jürgen Floege
Jürgen Floege RWTH Aachen University
Matthias Kretzler
Matthias Kretzler University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Hermann Josef Gröne
Hermann Josef Gröne German Cancer Research Center
Yasuhiko Tomino
Yasuhiko Tomino Juntendo University
Michael Bader
Michael Bader Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine
Lawrence B. Holzman
Lawrence B. Holzman University of Pennsylvania
Hermann Pavenstädt
Hermann Pavenstädt University of Freiburg
Corinne Antignac
Corinne Antignac Institut Imagine

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