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Glomerular epithelial foot processes in normal man and rats
- Source :
- Cell and Tissue Research. 205
- Publication Year :
- 1980
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 1980.
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Abstract
- The width of individual glomerular epithelial foot processes appears very different on electron micrographs. A method for obtainining distributions of the true width of foot processes from that of their apparent width on electron micrographs has been developed based on geometric probability theory pertaining to a specific geometric model. Analyses of foot process width in humans and rats show a remarkable interindividual invariance implying rigid control and therefore great biological significance of foot process width or a derivative thereof. The very low inter-individual variation of the true width, shown in the present paper, makes it possible to demonstrate slight changes in rather small groups of patients or experimental animals.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Histology
Adolescent
Geometric probability
Kidney Glomerulus
Statistics as Topic
Stereology
Epithelium
Pathology and Forensic Medicine
Animals
Humans
Foot Process
Child
Probability
Physics
Foot (prosody)
Cell Biology
Anatomy
Rats
Microscopy, Electron
Distribution (mathematics)
Variation (linguistics)
Biological significance
Electron micrographs
Female
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14320878 and 0302766X
- Volume :
- 205
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Cell and Tissue Research
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....8e59a5745894fe5ffd90e038c2e9044b