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PubMed1992

Vascular anatomy of the pig kidney glomerulus: a qualitative study of corrosion casts.

Pig kidney glomerular vascular anatomy was studied by scanning electron microscopy of vascular corrosion casts. A generalized vascular architecture is presented to describe the pig kidney glomerulus based upon the observation of 3,800 vascular cast glomeruli. The relative simplicity of the pig glomerular vascular architecture has allowed the characterization of different vascular segments more completely than has been possible in other mammals. Based upon relationships to the afferent arteriole, a nomenclature and definition of primary, secondary, tertiary and anastomotic vessels is proposed for the distributing vessels comprising the glomerular tuft. The existence and formation of a large central hemispheric vessel deep within the confines of a glomerular hemisphere is micrographically documented. Micrographic evidence is presented supporting the formation of the single efferent arteriole by the merging of two central hemispheric vessels within the confines of the glomerular tuft. Failure of the merging of these two vessels may result in multiple efferent arterioles.

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PubMed1979

[Presence of lectin-like substances in the basement membrane of the human kidney glomerulus].

Crude extracts from the human glomerular basement membranes solubilized by pepsin or bacterial collagenase agglutinate normal or transformed human cells. Cytoagglutination is inhibited by N-acetyl-osamines. These properties are reminiscent of lectins. When agglutinated cells are incubated for an additional 20 hrs. period in minimal serum free medium but in presence of these basement membrane extracts, they attach to the glass and spread out.

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PubMed1979

[Adenylate cyclase and guanylate cyclase activity in the isolated kidney glomerulus of the rat].

Isolated rat renal glomeruli contain an adenylate cyclase system and guanylate cyclase system. Adenylate cyclase was strikingly activated by purified parathyroid hormone, epinephrine, prostaglandin I2 and histamine. The demonstration of PTH activated adenylate cyclase in glomeruli raises the possibility of a role of this hormone in regulation of glomerular filtration rate. Guanylate cyclase was strikingly activated by CA2+, nitrate derivatives such as sodium nitroprusside. Its role remained still unknown.

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PubMed1979

[Demonstration of the myotoxic effect of theophylline on the isolated kidney glomerulus of the rat].

After confirmation of the intense and very fast myorelaxant effect of theophylline on isolated glomeruli, xanthic reagent myotoxic effects are shown during more or less long contacts with these glomerular suspensions. We studied isolated glomeruli diameter evolution according to reagent dose (0,25 to 10 mg/ml) and its contact length (1, 5, 10 minutes). If the diameter remains practically constant during all the period for the lowest doses, it begins to decrease after the 5th minute for higher (1 and 2,5 mg/ml) and cracks up in the first minutes for the biggest ones (5 and 10 mg/ml). Pharmacologic and toxic actions are discussed ; hypothesis of a toxic effect at smooth muscular cells level is proposed.

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PubMed1978

[Repartition of the kidney cortex glomerulus in rats].

This paper presents the repartition of 989 glomeruli in 8 parallel concentric renal cortex zones, by projecting on a calibrated screen rat kidney slices photographies. The glomerular density increases regularly from the outside to the middle cortical zones and then decreases to the deepest juxtamedullary zones.

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PubMed1979

Localization of fibronectin within the renal glomerulus and its production by cultured glomerular cells.

Fibronectin was shown in the kidney glomerulus by the use of the peroxidase-labeled antibody technique. At the ultrastructural level, fibronectin was present in greatest quantities along those cell surfaces that abut the capillary basement membrane, especially along the capillary epithelial cell foot process. Intracellular staining was also seen in the glomerulus, most notably in the mesangial cell. Fibronectin was present extracellularly in large amounts in glomerular cell culture and was also demonstrated on the cell membrane and intracellularly.

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