Abstract
Summary
1. Partial hepatectomy has been carried out in dogs with portacaval transposition, with normal hepatic blood supply, and with end to side portacaval shunts. 2. In dogs with portacaval transposition the hepatic venograms showed striking regeneration. 3. Percentile regeneration was somewhat less in these dogs than in Ithe normal but greater than in the dogs with end to side portacaval shunts. 4. These data discount the importance of portal blood per se in regeneration of the liver and lend support to the concept that the failure of hepatic regeneration in dogs with Eck nstulae is due in part at least to lack of venous blood flow.
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