YEAR	AUTHORS	METHOD OF COUNTING	DIAGNOSES	SUBJECT NUMBER	AGE (YEARS)	AVERAGE GLOMERULAR NUMBER (SD)	RANGE
1928	Vimtrup [77]	acid maceration	not reported	5	children (3), adults (2)	887,399	833,992–1,233,360
1931	Moore [78]	acid maceration	mostly infectious	29	1–74	794,253	427,697–1,040,671
1933	Hayman and Johnson [79]	acid maceration	no kidney pathology	11	19–75	1,230,000	800,000–1,530,000
			kidney pathology	23	23–51	393,000	156,000–1,330,000
1934	Moritz and Hayman [80]	acid maceration	no kidney pathology (mercuric chloride (n=3)	14	1 hr–88	1,287,500	940,000–1,542,000
			kidney pathology	21	21–85	595,000	155,000–1,154,000
1973	Dunnill and Halley [81]	acid maceration		18	1 day–61	908,333	600,000–1,150,000
1977	McLachlan et al [82]	acid maceration		32	20–91	1,309,280 (359,960)	580,000–2,000,000
				19	male: 20–91 (mean: 60)	1,363,870 (371,840)
			1	13	female: 43–89 (mean: 70)	1,229,450 (340,160)
1993	Merlet-Benichou et al [7]	acid maceration		28		1,107,000	655,000–1,554,000
1992	Nyengaard and Bendtsen [3]	fractionator-disector	no gross kidney pathology	37	16–87	608,000	331,000–1,424,000
			excluded: HTN, abnormal kidney function
1993	Hinchliffe et al [11]	dissector-cavalieri		16	fetuses	903,000	740,000–1,060,000
2003	Keller et al [4]	fractionator-disector	no HTN	10	34–54	1,429,200	531,140–954,893
			HTN	10	35–59	724,307	884,458–1,959,914
2011	Bertram et al [5]	fractionator-disector		398		895,711	210,332–2,702,079
			African Americans	176		898,748	210,332–2,702,079
			white Americans	132		894,119	227,327–1,660,232
			Aboriginal Australian	19		713,209	364,161–1,129,233
		>	White Australians	24		861,541	380,517–1,493,665
			Senegalese	47		988,263	536,171–176,4421
2008	Zhang et al [83]	fractionator-disector		15	<3 months	NA	246,181–1,106,062
2014	Beeman et al [66]	CFE-MRI	hypertensive (n=1)	3	37–68	1,110,000	740,000–1,460,000
2003	Fulladosa et al [62]	MRI and protocol biopsy	stable renal transplant patients	39	38 (range: 14–76)	730,000 (330,000)
2010	Tan et al [84]	whole kidney Kf	kidney donors	15	<45 years	821000
				19	>55 years	576000
2015	Lenihan et al [85]	whole kidney Kf	healthy kidney donors	19	54.8 ± 6.5	641,730	396,554–713,399
2015	Lenihan et al [86]	whole kidney Kf	young normotensive	24	33.5 (29–42)	797,250 (443,668)
			normotensive kidney donors	17	56 (55–59.6)	561,774 (225,774)
			hypertensive kidney donors	10	58 (55.75–61.5)	457,752 (176,140)
2017	Denic at al [40]	CT angiogram and implantation biopsy	healthy kidney donors	246	18–29	990,661
				11	70–75	520,410
				1638	43 +/− 11.7	873,696