Histomorphometric evaluation of renal glomeruli exposed to sustained delivery of estrogen using adult ovariectomized rats

Biomedical Sciences Instrumentation

Volumn 39, Issue , 2003, Pages 487-492

  Hafez, Naiel A ^a   Benghuzzi, Hamed ^a   Tucci, Michelle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Drug Delivery System; E Replacement Therapy; Estrogen; Glomeruli; Morphometric Evaluation; Nephrons; Overiectomized Rats; Renal Function; TCPL

Indexed keywords

CARDIOLOGY; DRUG PRODUCTS; PHYSIOLOGY; SURGERY;

HORMONAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY (HRT);

HORMONES;

CALCIUM PHOSPHATE CERAMIC; ESTROGEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; DRUG IMPLANT; ESTROGEN DEFICIENCY; ESTROGEN THERAPY; FEMALE; GLOMERULUS; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY MASS; KIDNEY TUBULE DISORDER; MORPHOMETRICS; NEPHRON; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; RAT; SUSTAINED DRUG RELEASE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CALCIUM PHOSPHATES; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS; DRUG IMPLANTS; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; KIDNEY; KIDNEY GLOMERULUS; ORGAN SIZE; OVARIECTOMY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REFERENCE VALUES; RENAL ARTERY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0037261532     PISSN: 00678856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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