An examination of the excretion of urea by the bird's kidney is of interest chiefly because in this animal urea is essentially a foreign substance. Only a small fraction of the total nitrogen is excreted in this form, and consequently it might be anticipated that urea would be handled in a different
The excretion of phenol red by the chicken
โ Scribed by Pitts, Robert F.
- Publisher
- Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
- Year
- 1938
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 785 KB
- Volume
- 11
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0095-9898
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โฆ Synopsis
FIVE FIGURES
From anatomical considerations it would appear that in the excretion of waste products the tubules should play a relatively more important role in the bird than in the mammal.
The fowl has about twice as many glomeruli as does a rabbit of the same size, but in the former they are only about onehalf as large (Marshall, '34). They contain relatively few capillary loops and the filtering surface is further reduced by invasion of the vascular tuft by fibroblastic tissue which forms a dense, avascular core (Vilter, '35). The relatively poor development of the glomeruli in the birds is such that Marshall and Smith ('30) grouped them with the reptiles, as forms in which glomerular function was poorly developed.
๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
One of the most puzzling problems in the comparative physiology of the kidney is the circumstance that the renal tubules participate in the excretion of exogenous creatinine in some mammals (man,
VCTe have previously presented a quantitative analysis of the data in a study of the tubular excretion of phenol red in the dog. This indicated that at low concentrations of free or filterable dye (0.05 to 0.40 mg. per cent) the rate of tubular excretion (milligrams per minute) is closely proportion
I n a recent paper on perfusion experiments on the frog's kidney, Chambers and Kempton ('37) presented evidence that the elimination of neutral red, a salt of a basic dye, can be explained as a physical diffusion. While copious amounts appear in the urine during portal administration of the dye, lit