An experimental electron-microscopic study of the kidneys was carried out in experimental oxamide nephrolithiasis in rabbits and hypervitaminosis D in rats. The most pronounced changes were revealed in the proximal and the distal convoluted tubules. It is suggested that cytosomes and lysosome-like bodies possibly participated in stone formation and nephrocalcinosis. It is supposed that they played an important role in the morphogenesis of nephrolithiasis man.

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