Dynamics of renal blood flow autoregulation in rats

Two separate components could be resolved in tests of the dynamic autoregulation of renal blood flow. The slow component corresponds to the frequency at which spontaneous proximal tubular pressure oscillations are found, and are most likely due to the operation of the TGF. The high frequency component most likely represents an intrinsic vascular, myogenic, mechanism. The gain maximum of the admittance in the frequency range corresponding to the autonomous tubular oscillations indicates that the dynamic characteristics responsible for the occurrence of the spontaneous tubular oscillations must be common to a significant fraction of the total nephron population.