Table 2.
n | Body weight at birth (g) | Body weight at autopsy (g) | Kidney weight (g) | Glomerular volume (×106 μm3) |
Podocytes per glomerulus (n) | Podocyte density (per 106 μm3) | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Slower growers | 8 | 2,666 ± 840 | 3,820 ± 1,328 | 34.5 ± 7.5 | 0.60 ± 0.20 | 613 ± 188 | 1,054 ± 217 |
Faster growers | 6 | 2,515 ± 1,089 | 6,201 ± 2,545 | 61.5 ± 24.9 | 0.50 ± 0.36 | 521 ± 105 | 1,169 ± 344 |
p value | 0.78 | 0.04 | 0.02 | 0.36 | 0.30 | 0.46 |