home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
/ NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #3 / NN_1993_3.iso / spool / bit / listserv / wordsl / 53794 < prev    next >
Encoding:
Internet Message Format  |  1993-01-25  |  786 b 
  1. Path: sparky!uunet!think.com!yale.edu!newsserver.jvnc.net!netnews.upenn.edu!eniac.seas.upenn.edu!bsinger
  2. From: bsinger@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Bayla Singer)
  3. Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
  4. Subject: Re: WORDS-L TP: Nancy's Science/Nature Question
  5. Message-ID: <106423@netnews.upenn.edu>
  6. Date: 25 Jan 93 11:32:16 GMT
  7. References: <01GTXPKWOF2W8Y4X5A@wombat.newcastle.edu.au>
  8. Sender: news@netnews.upenn.edu
  9. Organization: nope
  10. Lines: 8
  11. Nntp-Posting-Host: eniac.seas.upenn.edu
  12.  
  13. Bufo marinus is also useful to medical research: it has a bilobed, 
  14. sac-like organ (the urinary bladder) which is an excellent 'model' 
  15. of the mammalian renal (distal) tubule.
  16.  
  17. And - how shall I say this - before removing the bladder, one must
  18. pith the toad.  They do <not> recover.
  19.  
  20. --bayla (references on request)
  21.