Renal corpuscle of the African lungfish Protopterus dolloi: Structural and histochemical modifications during aestivation

Anatomical Record

Volumn 291, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1156-1172

  Ojeda, José ^a   Wong, Wai P ^b   Ip, Yuen K ^b   Icardo, José M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Aestivation; Glomerular basement membrane; Kidney; Podocytes; Protopterus dolloi; Renal corpuscle

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATE; COLLAGEN; FIBRIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BOWMAN CAPSULE; CELL SIZE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEHYDRATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; FISH; GLOMERULAR STRUCTURE; GLOMERULUS; GLOMERULUS BASEMENT MEMBRANE; GLOMERULUS CAPILLARY; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION; HISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; LECTIN BINDING; LUNGFISH; MALE; MESANGIUM CELL; MORPHOLOGICAL ADAPTATION; NONHUMAN; PODOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOPTERUS DOLLOI; SUBENDOTHELIUM; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; BODY SIZE; CYTOLOGY; HISTOLOGY; KIDNEY; PHYSIOLOGY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEASON; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALIA; PROTOPTERIDAE; PROTOPTERUS DOLLOI;

ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; CARBOHYDRATES; ESTIVATION; FEMALE; FISHES; KIDNEY; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; SEASONS;

EID: 52049094587     PISSN: 19328486     EISSN: 19328494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.20729     Document Type: Article

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