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LOYAL DAVIS, M.D.; CARLOS A. TANTURI, M.D.

AMA Arch Surg. 1951;62(3):325-334.

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THE MOST recent theories concerning the causative factors in experimental renal hypertension and their interrelationships may be stated as follows:

1. Renin, a protein-like substance, is formed in excessive amounts by an "ischemic" or "anoxemic" renal parenchyma. Hypertensinogen, the precursor of hypertensin, is a substance of the alpha-globulin fraction of the plasma which has been demonstrated to be formed in the liver and has a specificity for reacting with renin, produced in the kidney, to form hypertensin, the vasopressor substance.

2. The existence of a hitherto undescribed homeostatic system for the regulation of the peripheral circulation has been disclosed in studies by Shorr, Zweifach and Furchgott.¹ "This system is made up of two components, one of hepatic (V. D. M.), the other of renal origin (V. E. M.). Evidence of the presence of such a circulatory homeostatic system, its mode and sites of origin, and the manner in which . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
CHICAGO

From the Department of Surgery, Northwestern University Medical School.

Footnotes
Aided by the Grunow Surgical Fund.

Read before the Section on Surgery at the Ninety-Ninth Annual Session of the American Medical Association, San Francisco, June 30, 1950.

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