Endocrine Abstracts

Dent's disease is an X-linked renal tubular disorder characterised by low molecular weight proteinuria, hypercalciuria, and nephrolithiasis. The disease is caused by inactivating mutations of a renal-specific chloride channel, hCLC-5, that belongs to the family of mammalian voltage-gated chloride channels (CLCs). Heterologous expression of wild-type CLC-5 in Xenopus oocytes results in chloride (Cl-) conductance, which is markedly reduced or abolished by the m...