The presented study describes renal tubular epithelial cells morphology in rats during adriamycin therapy. It was demonstrated that one dose of the compound can induce increasing-with time-apoptosis in the cells. A statistically-significant increase in the number of apoptotic cells was observed in experimental groups compared to controls. The highest percentage of apoptotic cells was found in rats 7 weeks after adriamycin administration. The number of apoptotic cells in these animals was statistically significantly higher than that in the rats 4 weeks after adriamycin administration.
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