Postnatal food restriction in the rat as a model for a low nephron endowment

American Journal of Physiology - Renal Physiology

Volumn 291, Issue 5, 2006, Pages

  Schreuder, Michiel F ^a   Nyengaard, Jens R ^b   Remmers, Floor ^a   Van Wijk, Joanna A E ^a   Delemarre Van De Waal, Henriette A ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Glomerular number; Growth restriction; Nephrogenesis; Stereology

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET RESTRICTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GESTATIONAL AGE; GLOMERULUS; GROWTH INHIBITION; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY DEVELOPMENT; KIDNEY DISEASE; NEPHRON; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREMATURITY; PRENATAL GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; CALORIC RESTRICTION; EATING; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LITTER SIZE; NEWBORN; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMAL DISEASES; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BIRTH WEIGHT; CALORIC RESTRICTION; EATING; FEMALE; KIDNEY GLOMERULUS; LITTER SIZE; NEPHRONS; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 33750938891     PISSN: 1931857X     EISSN: 15221466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajprenal.00158.2006     Document Type: Article

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