title: The short term fate of dischargeable glass beads implanted surgically in the mouse urinary bladder.
abstract: Although both male and female mice of different ages expelled surgically implanted glass beads with diameters of 1 mm and 0.5 mm within 5 weeks in comparable numbers, urinary stones formed in relation to these implanted beads more frequently in male mice than in females. This stone formation in male mice may be a consequence of the relatively high mucoprotein content in the urine of the male mouse.
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D000818:Animals; D005260:Female; D005547:Foreign Bodies; D005898:Glass; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D011507:Proteinuria / Q000209:etiology; D012737:Sex Factors; D001743:Urinary Bladder / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000502:physiology*; D014545:Urinary Calculi / Q000209:etiology