North American opossum Didelphis virginiana as a fetal nephrotoxicity model: Histologic and ultrastructural assessment of uranyl nitrate (UN)- induced damage

Microscopy Research and Technique

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 285-296

  Liapis, Helen ^a   Vogler, George ^b   Steinhardt, George F ^b,c  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Cardinal Glennon Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

Nephrotoxicity; Structural damage; Uranyl nitrate

Indexed keywords

NITRATES; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; TOXICITY; URANIUM COMPOUNDS;

DOSE-RESPONSE CURVES; INDUCED DAMAGE; MORPHOLOGIC CHANGES; NEPHROTOXICITY; NONLETHAL; NORTH AMERICAN; RENAL DOSE; STRUCTURAL DAMAGES; TUBULARS; URANYL NITRATE;

DAMAGE DETECTION;

URANYL NITRATE;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FETUS DISEASE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; KIDNEY DEVELOPMENT; KIDNEY NECROSIS; KIDNEY TUBULE EPITHELIUM; NEPHROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; OPOSSUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE REGENERATION; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALIA; DIDELPHIDAE; DIDELPHIS VIRGINIANA;

EID: 0030669172     PISSN: 1059910X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0029(19971101)39:3<285::AID-JEMT7>3.0.CO;2-J     Document Type: Article

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