[Effect of general vertical vibration and polychlorocamphene on the kidneys of inbred rats]

During two months, effects of general vertical vibration, polychlorcamphen and combination of these two factors were studied in the kidneys of 60 immature male rats of August and Wistar strains. Twenty animals were used as controls (10 per each strain). Under experimental conditions, decrease in body weight, in kidney weight, in their volume, linear dimensions and thickness of the cortical layer were noted. The changes were mostly pronounced under combined influence of vibration and polychlorcamphen. Interstrain differences demonstrating that renal changes, under experimental conditions, could depend on the genotype were also revealed.