...Antonio Dal Canton; Giorgio Fuiano; Giuseppe Conte; Maurizio Terribile; Massimo Sabbatini; Bruno Cianciaruso; Vittorio E. Andreucci 1. To clarify why diuretic therapy raises plasma urea in patients with chronic renal failure, three groups of uraemic subjects were treated with frusemide for 6 days...

... (Goldblatt 1-kidney). Plasma urea, plasma volume and blood volume were also measured. 2. In Goldblatt 2-kidney rats, urinary kallikrein was not significantly different from that of sham-operated rats up to the 5th post-operative week even though at this time the Goldblatt 2-kidney animals were hypertensive...

... in plasma urea concentration and in kidney morphology were used as indicators of the renal response. 2. Mortality was lowest in 30-day-old animals (13%) and highest in 60-day-old animals (77%). Renal cytochrome oxidase activity increased by 44% during the same period. The mortality decreased to 34% between...