Table 1.

Podocyte slit pores, slit gaps and length of foot processes in wild type (WT) and CD2AP deficient mice.

	WT	CD2AP-KO (3-week old)
Slit pores
Number of pores/μm FP	27.44	20.68
Slit gaps
Number of slit gaps/FP	0/101	4/60
Length of FP (nm)	1654 ± 79	460 ± 29

FP, foot process. The number of slit pores are analyzed in WT (7.47 μm of FP length) and 3 week-old Cd2ap-KO (11.94 μm of FP length) mice. We defined “slit gap” as occurring when three or more consecutive cross-bridging filaments separating slit pores are broken. Length of FP is measured in WT (n = 30) and 3 week-old Cd2ap-KO (n = 24) mice, and presented as means ± standard error of the mean, SEM.