Role of thin descending limb urea transport in renal urea handling and the urine concentrating mechanism

American Journal of Physiology - Renal Physiology

Volumn 301, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Lei, Tianluo ^a   Zhou, Lei ^b   Layton, Anita T ^c   Zhou, Hong ^a   Zhao, Xuejian ^b   Bankir, Lise ^d   Yang, Baoxue ^a,b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

^b JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CENTRE DE RECHERCHE DES CORDELIERS   (France)

Author keywords

Protein diet; Urea cycling; Urea secretion; UT B; Vasa recta

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; PROTEIN UT A2; PROTEIN UT B; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UREA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE INACTIVATION; HENLE LOOP; KIDNEY CONCENTRATING CAPACITY; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INTAKE; UREA BLOOD LEVEL; UREA CYCLE; URINE FLOW RATE; URINE OSMOLALITY; URINE VOLUME;

EID: 82755177484     PISSN: 1931857X     EISSN: 15221466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajprenal.00404.2011     Document Type: Article

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