Kidney Concentrating Ability

Known as: Concentrating Abilities, Urine, Concentrating Ability, Kidney, Ability, Kidney Concentrating 
The ability of the kidney to excrete in the urine high concentrations of solutes from the blood plasma.
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2012
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2012
Urine concentrating and diluting ability during aging.
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  • The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological…
  • 2012
Urine concentrating ability is reduced during normal aging in people and rats. The abundance of many of the key transport… (More)
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2012
2012
Concentrating Photovoltaic System Using a Liquid Crystal Lens
A concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) system with a steady electric output adopting an electrically tunable concentration ratio of… (More)
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Review
2004
Review
2004
NSAIDs and kidney.
NSAIDs are commonly used drugs. Even with the advent of selective COX-2 inhibitors, nephrotoxicity still remains a concern. The… (More)
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1998
1998
Genetic deficiency of angiotensinogen produces an impaired urine concentrating ability in mice.
Angiotensinogen gene-knockout (Atg-/-) mice lacking angiotensin II exhibit chronic hypotension. The present study was designed to… (More)
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Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
Perinatal ANG II programs adult blood pressure, glomerular number, and renal function in rats.
ANG II is known to be important in normal renal development, but the long-term consequences of a suppressed renin-angiotensin… (More)
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1995
1995
Restoration of urine concentrating ability and accumulation of medullary osmolytes after chronic diuresis.
Restoration of urine osmolality (Uosm) and medullary osmolyte contents after chronic diuresis was studied in rats infused for 6… (More)
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1994
1994
Kidney concentrating ability of a subterranean xeric rodent, the naked mole-rat (Heterocephalus glaber)
The naked mole-rat (Heterocephalus glaber) is a strictly subterranean mammal inhabiting the arid zones of north-east Africa… (More)
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1988
1988
Dominant and recessive polycystic kidney disease in children: evaluation of clinical features and laboratory data
The clinical features and laboratory data of 93 children with polycystic kidney disease were analysed. Family studies showed that… (More)
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1987
1987
Genetic differences in effects of food restriction on aging in mice.
Lifelong food restriction to two-thirds of normal ad libitum consumption extended mean and maximum life spans more than 200 d in… (More)
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1959
1959
The role of urea in the urine concentrating mechanism.
Many years ago, Gamble, McKhann, Butler and Tuthill (1) described "an economy of water in renal function referable to urea… (More)
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