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Nephrons

Known as: nephron structure, Uriniferous Tube, Nephron 
The functional units of the kidney, consisting of the glomerulus and the attached tubule. (MeSH)
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23 relations
Blood supply aspectsCortical NephronCurved TubeDistal convoluted renal tubule structure

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Glomerular capsule structureKidney GlomerulusUriniferous tubule

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1982
1982
Factors that improve the preservation of nephron morphology during cold storage.
: Light and electron microscopy were used to evaluate the nephron morphology of rat kidneys that were perfused and stored at 0 to… 
Highly Cited
1982
Highly Cited
1982
Morphologic changes in uranyl nitrate-induced acute renal failure in saline- and water-drinking rats.
  • D. Haley
  • Laboratory investigation; a journal of technical…
  • 1982
  • Corpus ID: 7827783
The sequential changes in renal morphology that occurred for 5 subsequent days after a subcutaneous injection of uranyl nitrate… 
1982
1982
Nephron function in postischemic acute renal failure.
Acute renal failure was induced in rats by clamping the renal artery for 45 min. After reestablishing renal blood flow, tubular… 
Review
1979
Review
1979
Potassium transport in the nephron.
This review focuses on recent studies of single mammalian and amphibian tubules that aim at a delineation both of potassium… 
Highly Cited
1970
Highly Cited
1970
Micropuncture studies of the recovery phase of myohemoglobinuric acute renal failure in the rat.
Micropuncture studies of the recovery phase of glycerol-induced myohemoglobinuric acute renal failure were performed in rats… 
1969
1969
A demonstration of the effect of permeant and impermeant solutes, and unstirred boundary layers on osmoti flow.
Professor Donald Barron's scientific interests and achievements extend over a remarkably broad range of subjects. As a scholar… 
1962
1962
Stop-flow studies on renal handling of lithium ions in the dog.
Stop-flow experiments were performed on dogs after serum Li concentrations had been raised to 10–21 mEq/liter with intravenous… 
Highly Cited
1960
Highly Cited
1960
Quantitative histochemistry of the nephron. II. Alkaline phosphatase activity in man and other species.
at 410 m/A in the Beckman DU spectrophotometer. In each experiment suitable reagent blanks and standards were included. Tissue… 
1958
1958
Graphical placement of transport segments along the nephron from urine concentration pattern developed with stop flow technique.
The authors characterize transport within segments at points along the nephron by the concentration pattern developed along the… 
1956
1956
Quantitative histochemistry of the dog nephron.
Microdissection techniques for the separation of different anatomical segments of the dog nephron from frozen-dried kidney…