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Effects of hypo and hyperosmotic media on rabbit renal cortical slices
Experientia
|June 15, 1983
Abstract:
Rabbit kidney cortex slices behave as osmometers when withstanding either hyperosmotic shocks or hypo-osmotic shocks of amplitude up to P1/P2 = 1.25. For hypo-osmotic shocks of amplitude larger or equal to P1/P2 = 1.5 a volume regulation process occurs. Na+ is the main osmotic effector implicated in volume control.