Effects of maternal uninephrectomy on the development of fetal rat kidney with special reference to the proliferative activity and epidermal growth factor (EGF)

Congenital Anomalies

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 275-281

  Okada, Toshiya ^a   Mitsuoka, Koji ^a   Mukamoto, Masafumi ^b   Nakamura, Jun ^c   Morioka, Hiroshi ^a   Morikawa, Yoshio ^a  

^a Departments of Laboratory Animal Science   (United States)

^b Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Developing kidney; Egf; Egfr; Pcna; Perinatal rats

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745908952     PISSN: 09143505     EISSN: 17414520     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-4520.2000.tb00925.x     Document Type: Article

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