The renal pelvis: Machinery that concentrates urine in the papilla

News in Physiological Sciences

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-6

  Dwyer, Terry M ^a   Schmidt Nielsen, Bodil ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; KIDNEY CIRCULATION; KIDNEY COLLECTING TUBULE; KIDNEY CONCENTRATING CAPACITY; KIDNEY MEDULLA; KIDNEY PAPILLA; KIDNEY PELVIS; KIDNEY STRUCTURE; MICTURITION; NONHUMAN; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; PERISTALSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; REGULATORY MECHANISM; URETER; URODYNAMICS; VIDEORECORDING;

EID: 0037292096     PISSN: 08861714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/nips.1416.2002     Document Type: Article

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