Countercurrent multiplication may not explain the axial osmolality gradient in the outer medulla of the rat kidney

American Journal of Physiology - Renal Physiology

Volumn 301, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Layton, Anita T ^a   Layton, Harold E ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Mathematical model; NaCl transport; Urine concentrating mechanism; Water transport

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIDIURESIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUNTERCURRENT MULTIPLICATION; HENLE LOOP; HYPOTHESIS; KIDNEY COLLECTING TUBULE; KIDNEY CORTEX; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY INTERSTITIUM; KIDNEY MEDULLA; LIMB; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRESSURE GRADIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; URINE OSMOLALITY; WATER ABSORPTION;

EID: 80055080304     PISSN: 1931857X     EISSN: 15221466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajprenal.00620.2010     Document Type: Article

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