Nephrotoxicity in the experimental and clinical situation - Part 1

List of contents

1. Fixation of renal tissue for cytochemical evaluation.- 2. The application of histochemistry at the light microscopic level to the study of nephrotoxicity.- 3. Cryomicrotomy of renal tissue, and the use of X-ray microanalysis and autoradiography at the light and electron microscopic levels.- 4. Fixation of kidney tissue for morphometric study.- 5. Correlating structural and functional changes in nephrotoxic renal injury.- 6. Naturally occurring renal disease in non-human primates.- 7. Chemically induced epithelial tumours and carcinogenesis of the renal parenchyma.- 8. Assessment of the kidney in relation to blood pressure regulation.- 9. Renal slices and perfusion.- 10. The use of single nephron techniques in renal toxicity studies.- 11. Prostaglandins and other eicosanoids.- 12. Xenobiotic metabolism in the mammalian kidney.- 13. Metabolism of glutathione in the kidney.- 14. Metabolic activation of halogenated chemicals and its relevance to nephrotoxicity.

Product details

• Assisted by: A Lock (Editor), P H Bach (Editor), P. H. Bach (Editor), P.H. Bach (Editor), P H Bach (Editor), E a Lock (Editor), E. A. Lock (Editor), E.A. Lock (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.12.2012
• EAN: 9780898389777
• ISBN: 978-0-89838-977-7
• No. of pages: 488
• Weight: 950 g
• Illustrations: 488 p.
• Series: Developments in Nephrology; Developments in Nephrology
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature: general, reference works