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Induced renal dysplasia in the young pouch opossum
G F Steinhardt1, G Vogler, L Salinas-Madrigal
1Department of Surgery, St Louis University School of Medicine.
Journal of Pediatric Surgery
|December 1, 1988
Abstract:
Using the North American opossum, Didelphis virginiana, we have developed a new model for studying the effects of early fetal urinary obstruction on subsequent renal development. We have successfully induced renal dysplasia in the marsupial that has a typically mammalian kidney.