Identification of countercurrent tubule-vessel arrangements in the early development of mouse kidney based on immunohistochemistry and computer-assisted 3D visualization

• Yun-Sheng Ma ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yun-Sheng Ma, Si-Qi Deng

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Histology and Embryology, Basic Medical College, China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning, China, Department of Morphology, Medical College of Jinzhou Medical University, Jinzhou, Liaoning, China

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• Si-Qi Deng ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yun-Sheng Ma, Si-Qi Deng

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Histology and Embryology, Basic Medical College, China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning, China, Department of Pathology, the Fourth Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning, China

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• Ping Zhang,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliations Department of Histology and Embryology, Basic Medical College, China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning, China, Department of Morphology, Medical College of Jinzhou Medical University, Jinzhou, Liaoning, China

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• Jesper Skovhus Thomsen,

  Roles Methodology, Project administration, Software

  Affiliation Department of Biomedicine–Anatomy, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

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• Arne Andreasen,

  Roles Methodology, Project administration, Software

  Affiliation Department of Biomedicine–Anatomy, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

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• Shi-Jie Chang,

  Roles Data curation, Software

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Intelligent Medicine, China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning, China

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• Jie Zhang,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Histology and Embryology, Basic Medical College, China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning, China

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• Ling Gu,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Histology and Embryology, Basic Medical College, China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning, China

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• Xiao-Yue Zhai

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: xyzhai@cmu.edu.cn

  Affiliations Department of Histology and Embryology, Basic Medical College, China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning, China, Institute of Nephropathology, China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5907-8257

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