Tomographic quantification of branching morphogenesis and renal development

Kidney International

Volumn 77, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1132-1139

  Short, Kieran M ^a   Hodson, Mark J ^b   Smyth, Ian M ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Block Software   (Australia)

Author keywords

genetics and development; kidney development; renal development

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRANCHING MORPHOGENESIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EX VIVO STUDY; EXPLANT; FEMALE; GENETICS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING; IN VIVO STUDY; KIDNEY DEVELOPMENT; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY PELVIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL PROJECTION TOMOGRAPHY; ORGAN CULTURE; ORGANOGENESIS; PRIMORDIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY; URETER; VASCULARIZATION; ANIMAL; EPITHELIUM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; KIDNEY; METHODOLOGY; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT;

TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ANIMALS; EPITHELIUM; KIDNEY; MICE; MORPHOGENESIS; TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; URETER;

EID: 77956938098     PISSN: 00852538     EISSN: 15231755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ki.2010.42     Document Type: Article

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