Abstract
Summary
Seven out of 12 whole adrenal glands from newborn rabbits contained medullary tissue after being homoplastically transplanted into the anterior chambers of adult female hosts. Under the conditions herewith described, 68% of adrenal homotransplants into the kidney of the mouse contained medullary tissue for from 2 days to 4 months after transplantation. The observations are interpreted as indicating that the survival of the medullae in adrenal transplants is conditioned, in part, by opportunities for rapid vascularization or by the accessibility of nutritional body fluids. The functional capacity of the medullary tissue in our transplants has not been demonstrated.
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