Morphological Characteristics of Renal Artery and Kidney in Rats

Table 3

Shows the study carried out by Marques-Sampaio et al. (2007) [11] to study the variations of the dorsal division (Dd) and ventral division (Vd) of the renal artery and their respective findings were compared to the present study.

	Marques-Sampaio; et al., (2007) [11]		Present study
			W		SD
Total of kidneys; studied	92		56		56
Types	Dd	Vd	Dd	Vd	Dd	Vd
Type Ia	64.2%	67.3%	30.3	25	17.9	24.1
Type Ib	25.2%	21%	55.5	64.3	60.8	53.7
Type Ic	3.2%	6.3%	3.6	0	0	1.7
Type Id	1.1%	1.1%	8.9	10.7	17.8	17.8
Type Ie	0	3.2%	0	0	0	0
Type II	6.3%	3.2	1.7	0	3.5	1.7