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We have examined several gene expressions during the process of compensatory renal growth in mice following unilateral nephrectomy. On the 3rd, 5th and 7th days after operation in young mice (age: 5w), unilateral nephrectomy induced weight gain of the remaining kidney, but not in adults (age: 15w). It also induced maximum expression of c-H-ras and c-K-ras on the 3rd day in both young and adult mice, but there was no increase in N-ras in either. The expression levels of c-H-ras and c-K-ras were higher in young mice than in adults. However no expression of c-myc was detected at any point. Expression of metallothionein-I (MT-I) gene was detected during the first 12 h after unilateral nephrectomy both in the liver and the contralateral kidney. These data suggest that c-H-ras and c-K-ras gene expressions are in some way related to compensatory renal growth in mice and may be strongly related to hyperplasia in the contralateral kidney.
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Nomata, K., Igarashi, H., Kanetake, H. et al. Expression of ras gene family as result of compensatory renal growth in mice. Urol. Res. 18, 251–254 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00294767
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