Filamentous bodies in human glomerulonephritis.
Filamentous bodies have been identified in the glomerular cells of human kidney biopsies. These structures have a close morphological resemblance to ciliary rootlets, although the cells of the glomerular tuft only occasionally bear cilia. Their significance could be, as for cilia, of a cellular disdifferentiation of a pathological cellular proliferation.
D001706:Biopsy; D005921:Glomerulonephritis / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D007678:Kidney Glomerulus / Q000648:ultrastructure*