The Journal of Experimental Medicine, Vol 56, 255-265,
Copyright, 1932, by The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research New York
THE DEGREE OF COMPENSATORY RENAL HYPERTROPHY FOLLOWING UNILATERAL NEPHRECTOMY
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I. THE INFLUENCE OF AGE
E. M. MacKay M.D.1,
L. L. MacKay Ph.D.1, and
T. Addis M.D.1
1 From the Hospital of The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, New York, and the Department of Medicine of Stanford University Medical School, San Francisco
Compensatory hypertrophy of the kidney in albino rats becomes less as age advances. There is a rapid decrease from 5 days to 60 days of age and then a slow diminution throughout adult life.
Submitted on April 11, 1932