Maurice McLachlan's scientific contributions
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Publication (1)
This chapter discusses changes in renal morphology that accompany aging, for the most part with those changes that affect the nephron and the renal vessels. There are evidences that the aging nephron degenerates as a unit. The micro-angiographic examinations strongly suggest that the long-looped juxtamedullary nephrons degenerate earlier than short...
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... The kidneys of the elderly are apparently normal, with smooth or finely grainy surface in more than half of the cases, although 14% of them have scars (Fig. 2). The renal weight, which is about 400 g during the third and fourth decades of life, drops to less than 300 g in the 1990s (McLachlan, 1987). ...
Reference: Anatomical Changes in the Aging Kidney
