Counting glomeruli and podocytes: Rationale and methodologies

Current Opinion in Nephrology and Hypertension

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 224-230

  Puelles, Victor G ^a   Bertram, John F ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

morphometry; nephron number; podocyte depletion; podocyte number; stereology

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CELL COUNT; CELL DENSITY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GLOMERULAR DENSITY; GLOMERULUS; GLOMERULUS BASEMENT MEMBRANE; HUMAN; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY DISEASE; NEPHRON; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR SHAPE; NUCLEAR SIZE; PODOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STEREOLOGY; UROGENITAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; ANIMAL; BIOPSY; COMPLICATION; CYTOLOGY; KIDNEY; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALS; BIOPSY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; HUMANS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY DISEASES; KIDNEY GLOMERULUS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PODOCYTES;

EID: 84928498271     PISSN: 10624821     EISSN: 14736543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MNH.0000000000000121     Document Type: Review

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