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Quantitative morphology of the rat kidney during diabetes mellitus and insulin treatment
1997
Diabetologia
Kidney enlargement in streptozotocin (STZ) diabetic rats is well documented [1] [2] [3] [4] . This growth is mainly due to hyperplasia and to a lesser extent to cellular hypertrophy [2, 5] . After insulin treatment and normalization of blood glucose concentration (BGS), kidney weight and glomerular volume decrease [6]. However, little is known about how fast the morphology changes following normalization of BG by insulin treatment and about the morphology of the diabetic kidney after insulin
doi:10.1007/s001250050752
pmid:9243101
fatcat:tpvhb6472jfvzixa5ybe65oxfi