III. Effect of the male sex hormone on the damaged kidney.
To damage the kidney of the rats, 0.3% sublimat solution was injekted, or unilateral ureter was ligatured. And then testosterone acetate was given during a period of 2 weeks to thease rats.
(1) Experiments indicate that renal degeneration caused by sublimat may be protected by testosterone acetate administration.
(2) Renal atrophy and degeneration usually develope subsquent to hydronephrosis caused by unilateral ligature of the ureter may be inhibited and delayed by testosterone acetate administration.
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