...Minoru Kawamura; Fumihiko Ikemoto; Susumu Funakawa; Kenjiro Yamamoto 1. Renal cortical homogenates of the dog were subjected to sieve separation, a Nucleopore Filter being used to separate the renin granules. 2. The molecular weight of renin in the granules was estimated to be about 40 000 by gel...

...S. Funakawa; T. Higashio; K. Yamamoto 1. Renin release from isolated dog renin granules was limited to within 20% of the total renin during incubation at 37°C in isotonic medium and did not depend on the external concentration of renin. 2. Although the renin granules were osmotically...