COMPENSATORY HYPERTROPHY OF THE SPLEEN.
Following the removal of half of the spleen in young adult rats there is a compensatory enlargement of the remaining portion of about 50 per cent while in mature rabbits no such compensatory hypertrophy follows a similar procedure. It is uncertain whether this difference is due to a difference in the function of the spleen in the two species or to the fact that the rats were infected with Bartonella muris while the rabbits were not.
Department of Medicine, Stanford University Medical School, San Francisco.
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