Age-dependent thickening of glomerular basement membrane has no major effect on glomerular hydraulic conductivity

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 805-811

  Neumann, Klaus H ^a,b   Kellner, Christian ^a,b   Kühn, Karlwilhelm ^a,b   Stolte, Hilmar ^a,b   Schurek, Hans Joachim ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MAGDEBURG   (Germany)

^b HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ageing rat kidney; Glomerular capillary basement membrane thickness; Glomerular capillary surface area; Glomerular effective hydraulic conductivity; Isolated perfused kidney; Micropuncture methods

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GLOMERULUS BASEMENT MEMBRANE; GLOMERULUS CAPILLARY; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; KIDNEY PERFUSION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUNCH BIOPSY; RAT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; ULTRAFILTRATION;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; BIOPHYSICS; KIDNEY GLOMERULUS; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; PERFUSION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 1842418668     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfh067     Document Type: Article

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