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Fibrous capsule of kidney

Known as: Gerota's Capsule, Fascia of Zuckerkandl, fascia renal 
The fibrous connective tissue that surrounds each kidney.
National Institutes of Health

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Narrower (2)

Anterior renal fasciaPosterior renal fascia

Broader (1)

Dense irregular connective tissue
KidneyStructure of perirenal fat

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Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
Mechanisms of beta cell death in diabetes: a minor role for CD95.
Insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus is an autoimmune disease, under polygenic control, manifested only when >90% of the insulin… 
Highly Cited
1994
Highly Cited
1994
CTL access to tissue antigen is restricted in vivo.
MHC class I-restricted, hepatitis B surface Ag (HBsAg)-specific, CD8+ polyclonal CTL lines and clones cause a severe… 
Highly Cited
1994
Highly Cited
1994
Beneficial Influence of Glycemic Control Upon the Growth and Function of Transplanted Islets
Syngeneic transplantation of 200 mouse islets under the kidney capsule usually fails to cure streptozocin-induced diabetes. We… 
Highly Cited
1993
Highly Cited
1993
Laparoscopic nephrectomy for renal neoplasms.
Highly Cited
1992
Highly Cited
1992
Peripheral engraftment of fetal intestine into athymic mice sponsors T cell development: direct evidence for thymopoietic function of murine small intestine
Adult athymic, lethally irradiated, F1-->parent bone marrow- reconstituted (AT x BM) mice were engrafted bilaterally with day 16… 
Review
1986
Review
1986
The anterior pituitary-grafted rat: a valid model of chronic hyperprolactinemia.
TRANSPLANTATION of the rat anterior pituitary gland to the kidney capsule results in a state of chronic hyperprolactinemia. For… 
Highly Cited
1983
Highly Cited
1983
Correlation between response to chemotherapy of human tumors in patients and in nude mice
Human tumors serially heterotransplanted in nude mice have been tested for their response to chemotherapeutic agents. Fourteen… 
Highly Cited
1981
Highly Cited
1981
Regulation of humoral immunity in rats by pituitary hormones.
Hypophysectomized female Fischer 344 and Wistar-Furth rats had severely impaired primary and secondary antibody responses to… 
Highly Cited
1970
Highly Cited
1970
Porcine thyrotropin releasing hormone is (pyro)glu-his-pro(NH2).
Porcine thyrotropin releasing hormone, isolated from the hypothalamus, and synthetic L-(pyro)Glu-L-His-L-Pro(NH2) are… 
Highly Cited
1964
Highly Cited
1964
INVASION AND DESTRUCTION OF HOMOLOGOUS KIDNEY BY LOCALLY INOCULATED LYMPHOID CELLS
When lymphoid cell suspensions from the spleen, lymph nodes, blood, and thoracic duct of parental strain adult rats were injected… 
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