Transport efficiency and workload distribution in a mathematical model of the thick ascending limb

American Journal of Physiology - Renal Physiology

Volumn 304, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Nieves González, Aniel ^a   Clausen, Chris ^b   Layton, Anita T ^a   Layton, Harold E ^a   Moore, Leon C ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autoregulation; Cell volume regulation; NaCl transport; Tubuloglomerular feedback

Indexed keywords

SODIUM; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ARTICLE; BASOLATERAL MEMBRANE; BINDING AFFINITY; CELL VOLUME; FLOW RATE; FLUID FLOW; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HENLE LOOP; HUMAN; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY INTERSTITIUM; KIDNEY TUBULE ABSORPTION; MACULA DENSA; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MUSCLE TONE; OSMOLARITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCTIVITY; SODIUM TRANSPORT; STEADY STATE; THICK ASCENDING LIMB; TIGHT JUNCTION; TUBE FLOW; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL SIZE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; METABOLISM; RAT;

ANIMALS; CELL SIZE; FEEDBACK, PHYSIOLOGICAL; LOOP OF HENLE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RATS; SODIUM;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84877930477     PISSN: 1931857X     EISSN: 15221466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajprenal.00101.2012     Document Type: Article

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