The Kidney. Morphology, Biochemistry, Physiology

New York and London: Academic Press, 1969. First edition.

STATE-OF-THE-ART ILLUSTRATED REVIEW OF KIDNEY BIOLOGY AT THE DAWN OF NEPHROLOGY AS A SUBSPECIALTY.

Four 9 1/4 inches tall hardcover volumes, black cloth bindings, gilt title to spines, Vol. I, i-xiv, 561 pp; Vol. II, i-xiv, 522 pp; Vol. III, i-xiv, 408 pp; Vol. IV, i-xii, 430 pp. Covers clean, gilt titles bright, residue of removed library stickers bottom spines, library card pocket bottom of front paste-downs, library handstamp to front & back paste-down of Vols. III and IV. No markings in text. Very good. PREFACE: "This treatise, which is written for morphologists, biochemists, physiologists, pathologists, pharmacologists, and clinicians, is an attempt to present in comprehensive form present knowledge of the kidney under normal and pathological conditions, as revealed by morphological, biochemical, and physiological studies. Emphasis is placed on recent developments in the study of renal structure and function, particularly on the subcellular and molecular level. Thus, this work tries to fill the gap between the many valuable textbooks that are unavoidably limited to luman pathology and the numerous excellent reviews and monographs hat are concerned with special aspects of the kidney. The first volume stresses the embryology, macroscopic, microscopic. and ultramicroscopic morphology, and histochemistry of the kidney. Volume II is devoted to explants of embryonic kidney, experimental "renal diseases, tumors and intoxications, and the function of erythropoietin. Volumes III and IV discuss experimental and renal transplantation, structure and function of the juxtaglomerular apparatus, and the macula densa, the gaseous and substrate metabolism of the kidney, the role of this organ in the osmotic concentration and dilution of the urine, lydrogen secretion, potassium and sodium excretion, the correlation of the kidney with vitamins and parathyroid gland, and many other aspects."