Progressive glomerular injury in the MWF rat is predicted by inborn nephron deficit

Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1399-1406

  Fassi, Annamaria ^a   Sangalli, Fabio ^a   Maffi, Raffaello ^a   Colombi, Francesca ^a   Mohamed, Ehab I ^a   Brenner, Barry M ^c   Remuzzi, Giuseppe ^a,b   Remuzzi, Andrea ^a  

^a MARIO NEGRI INST PHARMACOL RES   (Italy)

^b OSPEDALI RIUNITI   (Italy)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GLOMERULOPATHY; GLOMERULOSCLEROSIS; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY BLOOD FLOW; MALE; NEPHRON; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 0031879927     PISSN: 10466673     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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