Validation of a three-dimensional method for counting and sizing podocytes in whole glomeruli

Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 3093-3104

  Puelles, Victor G ^a   Van Der Wolde, James W ^a   Schulze, Keith E ^a   Short, Kieran M ^a,b   Wong, Milagros N ^a   Bensley, Jonathan G ^a   Cullen McEwen, Luise A ^a   Caruana, Georgina ^a   Hokke, Stacey N ^a   Li, Jinhua ^a   Firth, Stephen D ^a   Harper, Ian S ^a   Nikolic Paterson, David J ^b,c   Bertram, John F ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute ^*  (Australia)

^c SOUTHERN HEALTH   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GLOMERULOPATHY; GLOMERULUS; HYPERTROPHY; IMAGING SOFTWARE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; KIDNEY CORTEX; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PODOCYTE; PODOCYTE DEPLETION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ANIMAL; CELL COUNT; CELL SIZE; CYTOLOGY; PROCEDURES; VALIDATION STUDY;

ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; CELL SIZE; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; KIDNEY GLOMERULUS; MICE; PODOCYTES;

EID: 85017616712     PISSN: 10466673     EISSN: 15333450     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1681/ASN.2015121340     Document Type: Article

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