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Micropuncture and Microanalysis in Kidney Physiology

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Micropuncture techniques and microanalysis have been the prerequisites for the investigation of two major questions in kidney physiology:

  1. 1.

    At what sites along the nephron are the different substances transported into or out of the tubular urine;

  2. 2.

    How do these transport mechanisms work, e.g. by what forces and through which mediating structures are substances moved from one compartement into another and how are these processes regulated.

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Ullrich, K.J., Frömter, E., Baumann, K. (1969). Micropuncture and Microanalysis in Kidney Physiology. In: Passow, H., Stämpfli, R. (eds) Laboratory Techniques in Membrane Biophysics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-87259-4_10

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