Age-related pathophysiological changes in rat oligomeganephronic hypoplastic kidney.

Rat male hypogonadism (hgn/hgn) is accompanied by oligomeganephronic hypoplastic kidney (HPK), in which each kidney contains one quarter the number of nephrons present in a normal kidney. The nephrons of the HPK are extremely hypertrophied. These characters were apparently common to human oligomeganephronia (OMN).