. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Mar 1.

Published in final edited form as: Cell Tissue Res. 2015 Sep 4;363(3):791–803. doi: 10.1007/s00441-015-2273-x

Table 2.

Comparison of Atypical Proximal Tubule Epithelial Cells

Term	Location	Species	Vimentin positive?	Brush border?	Mitochondrial Content?	Cytoplasmic Filaments?
PTRCs^*	Throughout injured proximal tubule	Human	Y	N	Low	Y
STCs^**	Throughout injured proximal tubule	Mouse, Rat	Y	N	Low	Y
STCs^**	Throughout normal proximal tubule	Human	Y	N	Low	Y
Pars recta mitochondrion-rich cells^***	Restricted to S3 portion of normal or injured proximal tubule	Mouse	Y	Y	High	N

“Proximal tubule rare cells”. Hansson et al., 2014

^**

“Scattered tubular cells”. mouse: Berger et al., 2014; human, rat: Smeets et al., 2013

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present study