Effacement
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Effacement is the shortening, or thinning, of a tissue.
It can refer to cervical effacement. It can also refer to a process occurring in podocytes.[1]
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- ^ Wagner MC, Rhodes G, Wang E, et al. (December 2008). "Ischemic injury to kidney induces glomerular podocyte effacement and dissociation of slit diaphragm proteins Neph1 and ZO-1". J. Biol. Chem. 283 (51): 35579–89. doi:. PMID 18922801.
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