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CYST FORMATION IN THE GLOMERULAR TUFTS OF CERTAIN FISH KIDNEYS

1937; Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL); Volume: 72; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/1537258

ISSN

1939-8697

Autores

Allan L. Grafflin,

Tópico(s)

Renal and related cancers

Resumo

Well-delimited glomerular cysts have been observed in the kidneys of the following species of fishes: Protopterus æthiopicus, Lepidosiren paradoxa, Myoxocephalus scorpius, Myoxocephalus octodecimspinosus, Ophichthys imberbis, Crenilabrus pavo, Corvina nigra; and in the horned toad, Phrynosoma cornutum. It is concluded that these cysts are probably formed in two ways: (1) on the basis of a degenerative process in the glomerular tuft; (2) as the result of a malformation of the glomerulus in embryological development.

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