Quantification of glomerular number and size distribution in normal rat kidneys using magnetic resonance imaging

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 100-107

  Heilmann, Melanie ^a   Neudecker, Sabine ^a   Wolf, Ivo ^b   Gubhaju, Lina ^c   Sticht, Carsten ^a   Schock Kusch, Daniel ^a   Kriz, Wilhelm ^a   Bertram, John F ^c   Schad, Lothar R ^a   Gretz, Norbert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b MANNHEIM UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

glomerular number; MRI; size distribution

Indexed keywords

FERRITIN;

ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EX VIVO STUDY; GLOMERULAR NUMBER; GLOMERULAR SIZE DISTRIBUTION; GLOMERULAR STRUCTURE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; RENAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; STEREOLOGY; TIME;

ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; FERRITINS; KIDNEY GLOMERULUS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 84856665028     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfr273     Document Type: Article

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