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

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...

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...

(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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

fluid filtered from the renal (kidney) glomerular capillaries into the Bowman's capsule per unit time. Central to the physiologic maintenance of GFR is...

transport in renal sodium reabsorption, renal chloride reabsorption as well as renal urea handling. Walter F., PhD. Boron. Medical Physiology: A Cellular...

Renal vein Human kidneys viewed from behind with spine removed. Kidney Renal vein Renal vein Renal vein Renal physiology Nutcracker syndrome Renal artery...

tonicity of the body fluids toward normal. An incidental consequence of this renal reabsorption of water is concentrated urine and reduced urine volume. AVP...

the physiology of the kidney, tubuloglomerular feedback (TGF) is a feedback system inside the kidneys. Within each nephron, information from the renal tubules...

perirenal fat, is regarded as a part of the renal capsule. Renal medulla Renal pyramid Renal artery Renal vein Squire L (2013). Fundamental neuroscience...

until these converge from across the kidney to form the renal vein for that kidney. Renal physiology This article incorporates text in the public domain from...

In renal physiology, renal sodium reabsorption refers to the process by which the kidneys, having filtered out waste products from the blood to be excreted...

Renal glucose reabsorption is the part of kidney (renal) physiology that deals with the retrieval of filtered glucose, preventing it from disappearing...

calculated GFR in some patients with normal renal function. A few medicines are dosed even in normal renal function using that derived value of GFR. The...

cellular 'fight-or-flight' reaction to stress". American Journal of Physiology. Renal Physiology. 280 (4): F551–61. doi:10.1152/ajprenal.2001.280.4.f551. PMID 11249846...

proximal tubule is the segment of the nephron in kidneys which begins from the renal pole of the Bowman's capsule to the beginning of loop of Henle. At this...

Effective renal plasma flow (eRPF) is a measure used in renal physiology to calculate renal plasma flow (RPF) and hence estimate renal function. Because...

loop of Henle, distal tubing and collecting duct". Principles of Renal Physiology. Springer. p. 70. ISBN 978-0-7923-6178-7. Loop of Henle physiology...

In renal physiology, ultrafiltration occurs at the barrier between the blood and the filtrate in the glomerular capsule (Bowman's capsule) in the kidneys...

Renal urea handling is the part of renal physiology that deals with the reabsorption and secretion of urea. Movement of large amounts of urea across cell...

The renal medulla (Latin: medulla renis 'marrow of the kidney') is the innermost part of the kidney. The renal medulla is split up into a number of sections...

rest and during sympathetic activation". American Journal of Physiology. Renal Physiology. 318 (4): F1053–F1065. doi:10.1152/ajprenal.00374.2019. PMC 7191446...

signaling cascade and its implications in renal pathophysiology". American Journal of Physiology. Renal Physiology. 308 (10): F1047–55. doi:10.1152/ajprenal...