Second-order stereology and ultrastructural examination of the spatial arrangements of tissue compartments within glomeruli of normal and diabetic kidneys

Journal of Microscopy

Volumn 195, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 87-95

  Mayhew, Terry M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Capillaries; Covariance; Linear dipoles; Mesangium; Pair correlation function; Podocytes; Renal glomerulus; Second order stereology; Spatial arrangement; Streptozotocin induced diabetes; Urinary space

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARITY;

CAPILLARY; COVARIANCE; LINEAR DIPOLES; MESANGIUM; PAIR CORRELATION FUNCTIONS; PODOCYTES; RENAL GLOMERULUS; SECOND ORDERS; SECOND-ORDER STEREOLOGY; SPATIAL ARRANGEMENTS; STEREOLOGY; STREPTOZOTOCIN; STREPTOZOTOCIN-INDUCED DIABETES; URINARY SPACE;

TISSUE;

STREPTOZOCIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DENSITY; DIABETES MELLITUS; GLOMERULUS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PODOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; STEREOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALIA; GLOMERULUS;

EID: 0032798380     PISSN: 00222720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2818.1999.00593.x     Document Type: Article

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