Renal concentrating mechanism: Central core and vasa recta models

Applied Mathematics Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 39-44

  Tewarson, R P ^a   Moon, I H ^a  

^a Stony Brook University   (United States)

Author keywords

Differential equations; Kidney models; Numerical methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 0007292003     PISSN: 08939659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0893-9659(97)00008-6     Document Type: Article

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