Fluid uptake by the renal medullary vasa recta: An estimate based on a quantitative analysis of the distribution of fenestrae in the vasa recta of young Sprague-Dawley rats

Experimental Physiology

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 23-34

  MacPhee, P J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL WALL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FENESTRATION; KIDNEY BLOOD VESSEL; KIDNEY MEDULLA; KIDNEY TUBULE ABSORPTION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; RAT; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ASCENDING VASA RECTA; DESCENDING VASA RECTA; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; IN VIVO STUDY; KIDNEY PAPILLA; LIQUID; PERMEABILITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031985340     PISSN: 09580670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/expphysiol.1998.sp004089     Document Type: Article

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