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Sampling Problems in the Kidney

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Geometrical Probability and Biological Structures: Buffon’s 200th Anniversary

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The kidney function covers a wide range of different aspects, some of which are of vital importance for the organism; e.g. the water and electrolyte balance of the body and the maintainance of normal blood pressure depend upon normal kidney function. Highly regulatedmechanisms ensure these equilibria. A precise interaction between the different parts of the kidney structures is obviously necessary for this purpose and this is reflected in the very sophisticated organization of the organ. The meaningfulness of some of the structural details is not yet clear, i.e. the interrelationship between structure and function is far from being fully clarified.

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  1. Kommunehospitalet, 2nd University Clinic of Internal Medicine and University Institute of Pathology, Århus, Denmark

    R. Østerby & H. J. Gundersen

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  1. Department of Statistics Institute of Advanced Studies, Australian National University, P.O. Box 4, 2600, Canberra, A.C.T., Australia

    Roger E. Miles

  2. Centre de Morphologie Mathématique, Ecole des Mines de Paris, 35 rue St. Honoré, 77305, Fontainebleau, France

    Jean Serra

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Østerby, R., Gundersen, H.J. (1978). Sampling Problems in the Kidney. In: Miles, R.E., Serra, J. (eds) Geometrical Probability and Biological Structures: Buffon’s 200th Anniversary. Lecture Notes in Biomathematics, vol 23. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-93089-8_16

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