Shear Forces and the Vulnerability of the Podocyte

1Department of Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 2National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland Correspondence: Dr. Josephine P. Briggs, email: [email protected] See related article, "Numerical Flow Simulations of the Shear Stress Forces Arising in Filtration Slits during Glomerular Filtration in Rat Kidney," on pages XXX–XXX.