The Journal of Experimental Medicine, Vol 53, 763-784,
Copyright, 1931, by The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research New York
EXPERIMENTAL NEPHRITIS IN THE FROG
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II. PERFUSION METHODS OF TESTING THE KIDNEY BY DISSOCIATION OF ITS FUNCTIONS
Jean Oliver M.D.1 and
Eshref Shevky Ph.D.1
1 From the Departments of Pathology of the Long Island College of Medicine, Brooklyn, and of Stanford University Medical School, San Francisco
1. A method of testing the frog's kidney by means of perfusion is described.
2. This is made possible by dissociating, as far as possible, from the total function of the organ the functions of its constituent parts.
3. The characteristics by which tubular, glomerular, and combined tubular-glomerular lesions may be recognized are described.
Submitted on February 25, 1931