ISSN:
0003-276X
Keywords:
Life and Medical Sciences
;
Cell & Developmental Biology
Source:
Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
Topics:
Medicine
Notes:
Ectopic glomeruli and proximal convoluted tubules were found in the kidneys of the rat, cat, dog, rabbit and ferret and in the human full-term fetus. They lay in the connective tissue around the main intrarenal vessels and deep to the pelvic mucosa. Their afferent arterioles were long and gave branches to the pelvic mucosal plexus, while their efferents supplied the pelvic mucosa and the medulla, or one or the other of these tissues. In the rabbit the ectopic glomeruli often produced small cysts in the pelvic septum. Degenerating ectopic glomeruli were occasionally found and in the dog the majority of them showed this change. In the adult human kidney, aglomerular arteries supplied both the pelvic mucosa and the medulla and it is suggested that such arteries are the result of degeneration of ectopic glomeruli.
Additional Material:
1 Ill.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ar.1091490102
