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Nephron and Collecting Duct Structure in the Kidney, Rat

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Urinary System

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The rat kidney is a unipapillary kidney. In histologic sections the different regions of this kidney are well discernible, since the tubules as well as the blood vessels are arranged in a regular zonal pattern. The renal cortex, as a whole, is cupshaped, with inverted margins, and surrounds the renal medulla.

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    Thomas Carlyle Jones D.V.M., D.Sc. (Professor of Comparative Pathology, Emeritus) & Ronald Duncan Hunt D.V.M. (Professor of Comparative Pathology) (Professor of Comparative Pathology, Emeritus) &  (Professor of Comparative Pathology)

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Bachmann, S., Sakai, T., Kriz, W. (1986). Nephron and Collecting Duct Structure in the Kidney, Rat. In: Jones, T.C., Mohr, U., Hunt, R.D. (eds) Urinary System. Monographs on Pathology of Laboratory Animals. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-96956-0_1

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