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Experimental Hydronephrosis Studied by the Colchicine Method

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THE colchicine method was first used to study compensatory hypertrophy of the kidney by A. P. Dust in and S. Zylberszac1,2, who noticed that a few days after ligation of the ureter, colchicine induced numerous ‘stathmocineses' (arrested mitoses) in the kidney (Fig. 1).

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HERLANT, M. Experimental Hydronephrosis Studied by the Colchicine Method. Nature 162, 251–252 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162251b0

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