TY - JOUR AU - Ashraf, Nargis PY - 2016/05/13 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Age related histological changes in rat kidney JF - Annals of King Edward Medical University JA - Annals KEMU VL - 10 IS - 4 SE - Articles DO - 10.21649/akemu.v10i4.1221 UR - https://annalskemu.org/journal/index.php/annals/article/view/1221 SP - AB - <p>Histological changes in rat kidney associated with growth and aging were assessed from day one after delivery to thirty months of age. Growth was associated with increase in body and total kidney weight. Different parts of nephron showed an increase in size with growth. In aging rats there was compensatory hypertrophy of renal corpuscle, focal atrophy of proximal and distal convoluted tubules with intra tubular cast and cellular infiltration.</p> ER -