Reduced nephron number in adult sheep, hypertensive as a result of prenatal glucocorticoid treatment

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 549, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 929-935

  Wintour, E Marelyn ^a,b   Moritz, K M ^a,b   Johnson, K ^a   Ricardo, S ^b   Samuel, C S ^a   Dodic, M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN TYPE 1; COLLAGEN TYPE 3; DEXAMETHASONE; GLUCOCORTICOID;

ADVENTITIA; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; GLOMERULUS; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY; KIDNEY BLOOD VESSEL; KIDNEY DEVELOPMENT; KIDNEY INTERSTITIUM; KIDNEY PROXIMAL TUBULE; KIDNEY STRUCTURE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; NEPHRON; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCLEROSIS; SHEEP; STEREOLOGY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; CELL COUNT; COLLAGEN METABOLISM; GESTATION PERIOD; GLOMERULAR VOLUME; HISTOPATHOLOGY; KIDNEY CORTEX; NEPHROSCLEROSIS; PRENATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; RENAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; COLLAGEN; DEXAMETHASONE; FEMALE; GLOMERULOSCLEROSIS, FOCAL SEGMENTAL; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY; KIDNEY GLOMERULUS; NEPHRONS; ORGAN SIZE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; SHEEP;

EID: 0037821215     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2003.042408     Document Type: Article

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