Quantifying podocyte depletion: theoretical and practical considerations

Cell and Tissue Research

Volumn 369, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 229-236

  Puelles, Victor G ^a,b   Bertram, John F ^b   Moeller, Marcus J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Glomerulus; Kidney disease; Microscopy; Morphometry; Podocyte

Indexed keywords

VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANTIBODY LABELING; CELL COUNT; CELL DENSITY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; GLOMERULAR STRUCTURE; GLOMERULOPATHY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PODOCYTE; PODOCYTE DEPLETION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; STEREOLOGY; THEORETICAL STUDY; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; KIDNEY DISEASE; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; KIDNEY DISEASES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PODOCYTES;

EID: 85019652792     PISSN: 0302766X     EISSN: 14320878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00441-017-2630-z     Document Type: Review

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