Abstract
Although growth of tubules is arrested and that of glomeruli retarded by hypothyroidism in rats, unilateral nephrectomy has been found to elicit a vigorous compensatory hypertrophy of the hypothyroid kidney. Microdissection and measurement of the dimensions of glomeruli and proximal convoluted tubules taken from the kidney removed first and from the hypertrophic contralateral organ removed two to three weeks later, disclosed a “normalization” of the typical glomerulotubular dimensional imbalance as a result of greater tubular than glomerular growth. A somewhat more striking but qualitatively identical response was observed in 9 euthyroid animals. Glomerular filtration rate and maximal glucose reabsorptive capacity (TmG) increased in both euthyroid and hypothyroid animals in accord with the structural shifts.
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