Renal physiology (Latin renes, "kidneys") is the study of the physiology of the kidney. This encompasses all functions of the kidney, including maintenance...
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Nephrology (redirect from Renal medicine)
of the kidneys, specifically normal kidney function (renal physiology) and kidney disease (renal pathophysiology), the preservation of kidney health,...
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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...
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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...
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Collecting duct system (redirect from Renal collecting tubule)
(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...
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Assessment of kidney function (redirect from Test of renal function)
excretion, kidney imaging, and, if necessary, kidney biopsy. Much of renal physiology is studied at the level of the nephron – the smallest functional unit...
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In renal physiology, renal blood flow (RBF) is the volume of blood delivered to the kidneys per unit time. In humans, the kidneys together receive roughly...
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Nephron (redirect from Renal tubular system)
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...
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AJP-Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology AJP-Renal Physiology "The American Journal of Physiology". NLM Catalog. United States National Library of...
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