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Filamentous bodies in human glomerulonephritis

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Filamentous bodies have been identified in the glomerular cells of human kidney biopsies. These structures have a close morphological resemblance to ciliary rootlets, although the cells of the glomerular tuft only occasionally bear cilia. Their significance could be, as for cilia, of a cellular disdifferentiation of a pathological cellular proliferation.

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  1. Unidade de Microscopia Electrónica da Faculdade de Medicina de Lisboa, Av. Egas Moniz, Lisboa, Portugal

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Gomes da Costa, A. Filamentous bodies in human glomerulonephritis. Experientia 34, 82–83 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01921916

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