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Urinary concentrating processes in vertebrates.

Avian and mammalian kidneys can produce a urine hyperosmotic to the blood by means of a renal countercurrent system. Birds are uricotelic; mammals are ureotelic. It is proposed that the inner medulla present in mammalian, but not in avian kidneys serves specifically to accumulate urea in the inner a...

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Autor principal: Schmidt-Nielsen, B.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine 1979
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2595808/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/538955