The repeated extracorporeal shock waves and the renal parenchyma injury on normal and diabetic rats A repetição de ondas de choque extracorpóreas e a lesão do parênquima renal em ratos normais e diabéticos

PURPOSE: To assess the effect of repeated extracorporeal shock waves (ESW) on renal parenchyma of normal and diabetic rats. METHODS: 40 normal rats (A) and 40 diabetic rats (B) were assigned for ESW (Direx Tripter X1® - 14 KVA) as follow: A1/B1 and A3/B3 no ESW; A2/B2 one ESW (2,000 SW); A4/B4 two E...

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Main Authors: Vicente Massaji Kira, Djalma José Fagundes, César Orlando Peralta Bandeira, Anna Tereza Negrini Fagundes, Valdemar Ortiz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira para o Desenvolvimento da Pesquisa em Cirurgia 2007-08-01
Series:Acta Cirurgica Brasileira
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-86502007000400010