Renal physiology (Latin rēnēs, "kidneys") is the study of the physiology of the kidney. This encompasses all functions of the kidney, including maintenance...

of the kidneys, specifically normal kidney function (renal physiology) and kidney disease (renal pathophysiology), the preservation of kidney health,...

almost always used when renal function drops below 15%. Nephrectomy is frequently used to cure renal cell carcinoma. Renal physiology is the study of kidney...

AJP-Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology AJP-Renal Physiology "The American Journal of Physiology". NLM Catalog. United States National Library of...

In physiology, the renal threshold is the concentration of a substance dissolved in the blood above which the kidneys begin to remove it into the urine...

to a failure of the kidneys to appropriately acidify the urine. In renal physiology, when blood is filtered by the kidney, the filtrate passes through...

(2004). Vander's Renal Physiology (6th ed.). Lange Medical Books/McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0-07-135728-9. Boron, Walter F. (2005). Medical Physiology: A Cellular and...

excretion, kidney imaging, and, if necessary, kidney biopsy. Much of renal physiology is studied at the level of the nephron – the smallest functional unit...

as a marker substance. The principle can also be used in renal physiology to calculate renal blood flow. In this context, it is not oxygen which is measured...

functional unit of the kidney. It is composed of a renal corpuscle and a renal tubule. The renal corpuscle consists of a tuft of capillaries called a...