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Tubuglomerular feedback control in long-looped nephrons. Topical minireview
H R Ulfendahl1, A Göransson-Nyberg, P Hansell
1Department of Physiology & Medical Biophysics, University of Uppsala, Sweden.
Upsala Journal of Medical Sciences
|January 1, 1992
Abstract:
The tubuloglomerular feedback mechanism is highly activated in juxtamedullary nephrons and considered to play a major role in intrarenal regulation of glomerular filtration rate. The vasculature of juxtamedullary nephrons is highly vasoreactive with a high ability for vasodilation. This vasoreactivity is a prerequisite for an important influence of the tubuloglomerular feedback mechanism on the medullary blood flow and its regulation.