Factors Influencing Mammalian Kidney Development: Implications for Health in Adult Life

In this monograph the authors have emphasized a number of important concepts in mammalian kidney development. Emphasis has been put on methodology so that the reader can understand how certain results or conclusions were reached and what the optimal methods for reliable results to be obtained are. I...

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Main Authors: Moritz, Karen. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Wintour-Coghlan, E. Marelyn. (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Black, M. Jane. (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Bertram, John F. (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Caruana, Georgina. (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2008.
Edition:1st ed. 2008.
Series:Advances in Anatomy, Embryology and Cell Biology, 196
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77768-7
Table of Contents:
  • Morphological Development of the Mammalian Kidney
  • Genetic Regulation of Metanephric Development
  • Abnormalities of Renal Development in the Human
  • Methodology to Examine Kidney Development
  • Development of Function in the Fetus
  • Nephron Endowment
  • Developmental Programming of the Kidney
  • Future Directions.