TY  - JOUR
TT  - A Scanning Electron Microscopic studies on the podocytes of the kidneys of rat (Rattus norvegicus) and blind mole rat (Spalax leucodon)
AU  - Nur, İsmail Hakkı
AU  - Yoldaş, Atila
AU  - Alan, Aydın
AU  - Akçay, Aytaç
PY  - 2014
DA  - December
JF  - Eurasian Journal of Veterinary Sciences
JO  - Eurasian J Vet Sci
PB  - Selçuk Üniversitesi
WT  - DergiPark
SN  - 1309-6958
SP  - 203
EP  - 209
VL  - 30
IS  - 4
KW  - Rat
KW  - spalax
KW  - SEM
KW  - böbrek
KW  - podosit
N2  - Aim: Blind mole rats can live in tunnels which are goosed by them underground, in environments that have quite low-oxygen ratio. Contrary most rodents, they can carry out high levels of metabolic rate under these conditions. The present study aimed out to compare the blind mole rats and rats’s renal podocyte, an important cell for maintaining the normal structure and function of the glomerulus.Materials and Methods: Blind mole rat (Male) (n=6) and rats (Male) (n=6) were used in this study. The morphologic features of the renal podocytes of blind mole rat and rat kidneys were examined by using scanning electron microscopic (SEM).Results: While the length, width and thickness of blind mole rat kidney were 15.6±0.25, 9.60±0.24 and 7.80±0.37 cm, in rats were 16.00±0.89, 9.40±0.74, 6.20±1.35 cm, respectively. When compared Bowman's capsule diameters and Bowman slits of blind mole rat, the rat was measured to be larger. The mean length of Pedicel spacing (Filtration slits) of blind mole rat and rats were found to be 0.049±0.003 µm and 0.073±0.004 µm, respectively. The podocyte pedicels were uniform needle-like shapes, and its length was ranging from 0.88 to 1.02 µm. They were in contact with each other intertwined processes in both species investigated.Conclusion: The podocyte of blind mole rat is morphologically similar to rat’s. In both species, between to diameter of the glomerulus were not statistically significant differences (P>0.05). Furthermore, there were not statistically significant differences in the length, the width and the thickness of both species’ kidneys (P>0.05)
UR  - https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/eurasianjvetsci/issue//261987
L1  - https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/228507
ER  -