Methods for estimating the volume of individual glomeruli

Kidney International

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 2644-2649

  Pagtalunan, Maria Enrica ^a   Drachman, Jordan A ^a   Meyer, Timothy W ^a,b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VA PALO ALTO HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Biopsy; Cavalieri method; Maximal planar area; Tissue sample analysis

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CELL VOLUME; CONTROLLED STUDY; GLOMERULUS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TISSUE SECTION;

EID: 0034087190     PISSN: 00852538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1755.2000.00125.x     Document Type: Article

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