Effects of testosterone on glomerular growth after uninephrectomy

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 2234-2240

  Zeier, Martin ^a   Schönherr, Ralf ^a   Amann, Kerstin ^a   Ritz, Eberhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gender; Glomerular volume; Glomerulosclerosis; Renal growth; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; ANDROSTANOLONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GLOMERULOSCLEROSIS; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY MASS; NEPHELOMETRY; NONHUMAN; ORCHIECTOMY; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEINURIA; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RAT; STEREOLOGY; UNINEPHRECTOMY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; FEMALE; KIDNEY GLOMERULUS; MALE; NEPHRECTOMY; ORCHIECTOMY; OVARIECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 0031670526     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/13.9.2234     Document Type: Article

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