... of this 5Α-reductase is not limited to androgens. Preliminary data concerning the cell distribution of the enzyme indicate that about 16% of the enzyme activity is associated with purified nuclei in the rat kidney. In the rat prostate the nuclear activity reaches 28 % of the total cellular activity. 19...

...V. Toder; M. Blank; A. Fein; L. Nebel Immunological interrelations between placenta and kidney have become a matter of interest with regard to the pathogenesis of preeclampsia. Kidney morphology of Lewis rats was studied following repeated transplantations of heterologous or syngeneic placental...

...J. Sagi; I. Vagman; M.P. David; L.G.R. van Dongen; E. Goudie; A. Butterworth; M.J. Jacobson Fetal renal anatomy was assessed in 660 apparently normal fetuses. The problems of technique of visualization of the kidneys are outlined. A correlation of fetal kidney length and gestational age...

... endothelial cell cultures incubated with the same types of AF s . After infusion of rabbits with AFs, we observed that the lung, heart and kidney were positively stained for ET and von Willebrand factor. AF was found to have an injurious effect on endothelial cells measured by using fura-2. The maximal...