Advances in understanding the urine-concentrating mechanism

Annual Review of Physiology

Volumn 76, Issue , 2014, Pages 387-409

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

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aquaporin; Mathematical modeling; Sodium transport; Urea transport; Urine concentrating mechanism; Vasopressin

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; HUMANS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY CONCENTRATING ABILITY; KIDNEY MEDULLA; KIDNEY TUBULES, COLLECTING; MICE;

EID: 84894155135     PISSN: 00664278     EISSN: 15451585     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-physiol-021113-170350     Document Type: Article

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