Effects of maternal uninephrectomy on the development of fetal rat kidney: Numerical and volumetric changes of the glomerulus and formation of the anionic site in the glomerular basement membrane

Journal of Morphology

Volumn 238, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 337-342

  Okada, Toshiya ^a   Yamagishi, Tatsuro ^a   Morikawa, Yoshio ^a  

^a Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

Author keywords

BUN; Cationized ferritin; Fetal kidney; Maternal uninephrectomy; Morphometry; Rat

Indexed keywords

FERRITIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; BREEDING; CHEMISTRY; FEMALE; GLOMERULUS; NEPHRECTOMY; ORGAN SIZE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; RAT; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; BLOOD UREA NITROGEN; FEMALE; FERRITINS; KIDNEY GLOMERULUS; NEPHRECTOMY; ORGAN SIZE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

ANIMALIA; GLOMERULUS; LAMIINAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032400985     PISSN: 03622525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4687(199812)238:3<337::AID-JMOR5>3.0.CO;2-D     Document Type: Article

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