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Morphogenesis of the renal juxtaglomerular apparatus and peripolar cells in the sheep

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The morphogenesis of the juxtaglomerular apparatus and peripolar cells was studied in the metanephros of fetal sheep (from 24 to 147 days of gestation) using light and electron microscopy. The first juxtaglomerular apparatus was detected at 45 days of gestation, following constriction of the edges of Bowman's capsule and formation of the vascular pole of the renal corpuscle. Mesenchymal cells gave rise to lacis cells and to smooth muscle and epithelioid cells of the juxtaglomerular arterioles. Epithelioid cells developed only sparse cytoplasmic granulation, first detectable at 92 days. The macula densa developed from tubular cells at the junction of the middle and upper limbs of the S-shaped body of the developing nephron. Peripolar cells arose from epithelial cells in the lower limb of the S-shaped body, at the constricting edges of Bowman's capsule, and formed a cuff around the origin of the glomerular tuft. Cytoplasmic granules were first detected in peripolar cells at 53 days, and remained more prominent than epithelioid cell granulation throughout gestation.

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    G. M. Mitchell, B. F. Stratford & G. B. Ryan

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Mitchell, G.M., Stratford, B.F. & Ryan, G.B. Morphogenesis of the renal juxtaglomerular apparatus and peripolar cells in the sheep. Cell Tissue Res. 222, 101–111 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00218291

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