The Urine Concentrating Mechanism and Urea Transporters

Seldin and Giebisch's The Kidney: Physiology & Pathophysiology 1-2

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1143-1178

  Sands, Jeff M ^a   Layton, Harold E ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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