The Mouse Adult Gross Anatomy Ontology and Mammalian Phenotype Ontology are downloaded weekly from the Mouse Genome Informatics databases at Jackson Laboratories (ftp://ftp.informatics.jax.org/pub/reports/index.html). For more information about these ontologies, see the MGI Publications Page at http://www.informatics.jax.org/mgihome/other/publications.shtml.
an injurious glomerular process that affects primarily the mesangium, starting with loosening and detachment of its matrix and progressing to dissolution/attenuation with degeneration of mesangial cells; mesangial cells may show only edema and vacuolization, or may undergo severe degeneration and necrosis
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dissolution of the mesangial matrix; mesangial cell degeneration