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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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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 |