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Research Article Free access | 10.1172/JCI103117

ACIDIFICATION OF THE URINE AND INCREASED AMMONIUM EXCRETION WITHOUT CHANGE IN ACID-BASE EQUILIBRIUM: SODIUM REABSORPTION AS A STIMULUS TO THE ACIDIFYING PROCESS

William B. Schwartz, Robert L. Jenson, and Arnold S. Relman

Department of Medicine, Tufts College Medical School and the New England Center Hospital, Boston, Mass.

Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine and the Evans Memorial, Massachusetts Memorial Hospitals, Boston, Mass.

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This investigation was supported in part by grants from the National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases and the National Heart Institute of the National Institutes of Health, United States Public Health Service.

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Presented in part at the Annual Meeting of the American Physiological Society, April 13, 1954.

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Department of Medicine, Tufts College Medical School and the New England Center Hospital, Boston, Mass.

Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine and the Evans Memorial, Massachusetts Memorial Hospitals, Boston, Mass.

1

This investigation was supported in part by grants from the National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases and the National Heart Institute of the National Institutes of Health, United States Public Health Service.

2

Presented in part at the Annual Meeting of the American Physiological Society, April 13, 1954.

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Department of Medicine, Tufts College Medical School and the New England Center Hospital, Boston, Mass.

Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine and the Evans Memorial, Massachusetts Memorial Hospitals, Boston, Mass.

1

This investigation was supported in part by grants from the National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases and the National Heart Institute of the National Institutes of Health, United States Public Health Service.

2

Presented in part at the Annual Meeting of the American Physiological Society, April 13, 1954.

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Published May 1, 1955 - More info

Published in Volume 34, Issue 5 on May 1, 1955
J Clin Invest. 1955;34(5):673–680. https://doi.org/10.1172/JCI103117.
© 1955 The American Society for Clinical Investigation
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