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Nucleolar organizer regions in myogenic stromal tumours of the stomach
Silver staining of nucleolar organizer regions (AgNOR) was studied in 26 primary benign and malignant gastric stromal tumours of myogenic origin. The absolute number of AgNOR per nucleus and the size of AgNOR ...
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Pathology of the Human Juxtaglomerular Apparatus
To our current knowledge, there are no fundamental differences between humans and other mammalian species either in the histology of the JGA or in the ultrastructure of the granulated renin-producing cells. Co...
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The juxtaglomerular apparatus in Bartter's syndrome and related tubulopathies
A comparative immunocytochemical and electron microscopic study was performed on renal biopsies from two children with classical Bartter's syndrome (BS) and three children with a recently described variant, th...
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Synergistic effects of diabetes mellitus and renovascular hypertension on the rat heart - stereological investigations on papillary muscles
The effects of combined renovascular hypertension and diabetes mellitus on the rat heart were investigated in order to detect possible synergistic effects of the two conditions. Hypertensive diabetic and hyper...
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Co-expression of cytokeratin and vimentin intermediate-sized filaments in renal cell carcinomas
The expression of intermediate-sized filaments (IF) was examined by immunocytochemical methods in 40 primary renal cell carcinomas and compared with the IF distribution in the normal adult human kidney. All tu...
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Mesangial alterations in steroid-responsive minimal change nephrotic syndrome
Renal biopsies from 25 children with steroid-sensitive minimal change nephrotic syndrome were evaluated retrospectively to determine whether there is any relation between the morphological changes and the freq...
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The nephronophthisis complex
The clinical and morphological findings are described in 27 children with nephronophthisis. Seventeen children were considered as sporadic cases. In 10 familial cases the presumed mode of inheritance was autos...
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Membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis in systemic sclerosis of childhood
The renal lesions of a 5-year-old girl with progressive systemic sclerosis are described. The nephropathy was clinically characterised by moderate proteinuria, microscopic hematuria and transient hypertension....