Compensatory Growth of Congenital Solitary Kidneys in Pigs Reflects Increased Nephron Numbers Rather Than Hypertrophy

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  van Vuuren, Stefan H ^a   Sol, Chalana M ^a   Broekhuizen, Roel ^a   Lilien, Marc R ^b   Oosterveld, Michiel J S ^c   Nguyen, Tri Q ^a   Goldschmeding, Roel ^a   de Jong, Tom P V M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL PIG; FEMALE; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KIDNEY CORTEX; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY HYPERTROPHY; MALE; NEPHRON; NONHUMAN; ORGAN SIZE; PODOCYTE; SOLITARY KIDNEY; STEREOLOGY;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HYPERTROPHY; KIDNEY; KIDNEY DISEASES; KIDNEY GLOMERULUS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEPHRONS; OBSERVER VARIATION; RISK; SWINE;

SUIDAE;

EID: 84869780375     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0049735     Document Type: Article

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