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,...

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...

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...

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...

(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...

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 the physiology of the kidney, renal blood flow (RBF) is the volume of blood delivered to the kidneys per unit time. In humans, the kidneys together...

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

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 reabsorption of sodium (Na+) is a part of renal physiology. It uses Na-H antiport, Na-glucose symport, sodium ion channels (minor). It is stimulated...

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

calculated GFR in some patients with normal renal function. A few medicines are dosed even in normal renal function on that derived GFR. The dose, unless...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

Renin is secreted from juxtaglomerular kidney cells, which sense changes in renal perfusion pressure, via stretch receptors in the vascular walls. The juxtaglomerular...

being presented to the renal tubules is great enough to fully saturate the receptor sites". John Field of the American Physiological Society said "Since...

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