OBSERVATIONS CONCERNING THE CHOLATE: CHOLESTEROL RELATIONSHIP IN CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL NEPHROSIS 12

Abstract
An excess accumulation of bile acid (hypercholatemia) is found in the blood of human subjects with nephrosis and in the blood of rats in which exptl. nephrosis has been induced by injn. of anti-rat kidney serum, whenever hypercholesteremia also is present. The nephrotic rat also exhibits diminished ability to rid his blood of excess injected cholate. The feeding of cholate to nephrotic rats appeared to prevent the decrease of plasma cholesterol, which usually occurred, following its initial maximal rise.