[Concomitant variations in the weight of adrenals and uremia during kidney provocation by high doses of glafenine].

High doses of glafenine given orally to rats induced renal tubular changes and simultaneously raised not only blood urea concentrations but also adrenal volume and weight. These modifications were transient and dose-dependent. Blood urea and adrenal weight returned to normal at the same time. Treated rats showed no alteration in serum K+, Na+, Cl-, uric acid, glucose and cholesterol and only a slight decrease in serum transaminase levels. An indirect relationship between renal lesions and adrenals hypertrophy induced by flafenine may exist.