The central vessel of the renal countercurrent bundles of two marine elasmobranchs - dogfish (Scyliorhinus caniculus) and skate (Raja erinacea) - as revealed by light and electron microscopy with computer-assisted reconstruction

Anatomy and Embryology

Volumn 198, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 73-89

  Hentschel, Hartmut ^a,b   Storb, Ulrich ^c   Teckhaus, Ludwig ^a   Elger, Marlies ^b,d  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PHYSIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b MOUNT DESERT ISLAND BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Collecting tubule; Diluting segment; Kidney; Lesser spotted dogfish Scyliorhinus caniculus; Little skate Raja erinacea; Microvasculature; Urea

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHLORIDE; UREA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAPILLARY; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; DOGFISH; ELECTRIC FISH; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; KIDNEY COLLECTING TUBULE; KIDNEY DISTAL TUBULE; KIDNEY PROXIMAL TUBULE; KIDNEY TUBULE; LYMPH VESSEL; MICROSCOPY; MICROVASCULATURE; NONHUMAN; PORTAL VEIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; DOGFISH; FEMALE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; KIDNEY TUBULES, COLLECTING; MICROCIRCULATION; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NEPHRONS; SKATES (FISH); UREA;

EID: 0031828612     PISSN: 03402061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004290050166     Document Type: Article

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