Design-based stereological methods for estimating numbers of glomerular podocytes

Annals of Anatomy

Volumn 196, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 48-56

  Puelles, Victor G ^a   Douglas Denton, Rebecca N ^a   Cullen McEwen, Luise ^a   McNamara, Bridgette J ^a   Salih, Firuz ^a   Li, Jinhua ^a   Hughson, Michael D ^b   Hoy, Wendy E ^c   Nyengaard, Jens R ^d   Bertram, John F ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Glomerular volume; Immunohistochemistry and confocal microscopy; Podocyte; Stereology

Indexed keywords

GLOMERULAR VOLUME; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY AND CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; PODOCYTE; STEREOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BIOPSY; CELL COUNT; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KIDNEY GLOMERULUS; MICROSCOPY; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; PODOCYTES;

EID: 84895074649     PISSN: 09409602     EISSN: 16180402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aanat.2013.04.007     Document Type: Article

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