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  • Title: Compensatory renal hypertrophy in fetal lambs.
    Author: Moore ES, deLeon LB, Weiss LS, McMann BJ, Ocampo M.
    Journal: Pediatr Res; 1979 Oct; 13(10):1125-8. PubMed ID: 503637.
    Abstract:
    Compensatory renal hypertrophy was studied in fetal lambs during midgestation. Functional adaptation was correlated with anatomica and biochemical changes by measuring glomerular filtration and clearance of para-amino hippurate (PAH). Normal intrauterine body growth and kidney growth by changes in RNA and DNA over a 72-hr period were studied in twin fetuses. Seventy-two hr after left uninephrectomy in single fetuses, there was a significant increase in weight of the renoprival right kidney as well as a significant increase in renal cortical content of RNA and DNA. The rate of increase in RNA was greater than the increase in DNA. Preliminary studies suggest that an increase in renal function parallels renal hypertrophy in fetal lambs.
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