Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PDH) activity, assayed biochemically, was significantly increased in kidney homogenates of lead-poisoned rats when compared with controls. Histochemically, G6PDH activity was greatly increased both in the distal tubules and the macula densa, but showed no significant changes in the proximal tubules. Biochemical assay of G6PDH in kidney homogenates of adrenalectomized rats was three times that in control animals. In this condition also, histochemical staining showed G6PDH activity to be increased in both macula densa and distal tubules. This demonstrates an increase in G6PHD in two completely different experimental conditions and suggests that the distal renal tubule in the rat might operate in functional unity with the macula densa.
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