Associations between age, body size and nephron number with individual glomerular volumes in urban West African males

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1500-1506

  McNamara, Bridgette J ^a   Diouf, Boucar ^b   Hughson, Michael D ^c   Hoy, Wendy E ^d   Bertram, John F ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Aristide Le Dantec de Dakar   (Senegal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Glomerular size; Glomerular volume; Heterogeneity; Nephron number; Senegal

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BODY SIZE; BODY SURFACE; CELL SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GLOMERULOMEGALY; GLOMERULOPATHY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INDIVIDUAL GLOMERULAR VOLUME; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NEPHRON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SENEGAL;

ADULT; AFRICA, WESTERN; AGED; AGING; BODY SIZE; HUMANS; KIDNEY DISEASES; KIDNEY GLOMERULUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEPHRONS; RISK FACTORS; SENEGAL; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 65249154078     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfn636     Document Type: Article

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