Countercurrent system

The production of concentrated urine is achieved by osmotic equilibration of the collecting duct luminal fluid with the hypertonic medullary interstitium. The principals of countercurrent multiplication, originally proposed by Kuhn and Ryffel in 1942 [1] are now generally accepted as the mechanism b...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Kidney international 1990-10, Vol.38 (4), p.695-699
Hauptverfasser:	Sands, Jeff M., Kokko, Juha P.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Animals Biological and medical sciences Countercurrent Distribution Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology Humans Kidney Concentrating Ability - physiology Kidney Tubules - physiology Models, Biological Sodium Chloride - pharmacokinetics Urea - metabolism Vertebrates: urinary system Water-Electrolyte Balance - physiology
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