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The Vascular Pole of the Renal Glomerulus of Rat

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  1. Marlies Elger

    1. Institut für Anatomie und Zellbiologie, Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

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  2. Tatsuo Sakai

    1. Department of Anatomy, Juntendo University, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113, Japan

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  3. Wilhelm Kriz

    1. Institut für Anatomie und Zellbiologie, Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

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Part of the book series: Advances in Anatomy, Embryology and Cell Biology (ADVSANAT, volume 139)

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    • Marlies Elger, Tatsuo Sakai, Wilhelm Kriz
    Pages 1-2

  3. Material and Methods

    • Marlies Elger, Tatsuo Sakai, Wilhelm Kriz
    Pages 3-3

  4. Results

    • Marlies Elger, Tatsuo Sakai, Wilhelm Kriz
    Pages 5-68

  5. Discussion

    • Marlies Elger, Tatsuo Sakai, Wilhelm Kriz
    Pages 69-85

  6. Summary

    • Marlies Elger, Tatsuo Sakai, Wilhelm Kriz
    Pages 87-88

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 89-98
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About this book

Glomerular flltration represents one of the basic mechanisms in the function of an organism. Our understanding of this process is still quite fragmentary. Regulation of blood flow and pressure, together with regulation of the ultraflltration coefficient (which is an attribute of the flltration barrier), are the two fundamental mechanisms accounting for maintenance and adaptability of glomerular flltration. Regulation of glomerular blood flow is generally considered to result from an interplay between afferent and efferent glomerular arterioles, and much progress has been made recently in understanding this interplay (Navar et al. 1996). The present study provides a detailed structural description of the glomerular vascular pole of rat. The results of this study appear to be relevant for several open questions of glomerular function. First, the interaction between afferent and efferent arterioles in regulating glomerular blood is generally understood to occur between the preglomerular and the postglomerular portions of these vessels. As shown in the present study, the structural elaborations of these arterioles and the spatial relationships between them within the glomerular hilum strongly suggest an interplay also at this site. Moreover, the current understanding of glomerular blood flow regulation by tuning the interplay between afferent and efferent arterioles is exclusively based on signals whose regulatory loops are established in follow-up events outside the glomerulus (tubuloglomerular balance, tubuloglomerular feedback).
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Institut für Anatomie und Zellbiologie, Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

    Marlies Elger, Wilhelm Kriz

  • Department of Anatomy, Juntendo University, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113, Japan

    Tatsuo Sakai

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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Vascular Pole of the Renal Glomerulus of Rat

  • Authors: Marlies Elger, Tatsuo Sakai, Wilhelm Kriz

  • Series Title: Advances in Anatomy, Embryology and Cell Biology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-80449-6

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer-Verlag GmbH, DE, part of Springer Nature 1998

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-63241-2Published: 10 October 1997

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-80449-6Published: 08 March 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0301-5556

  • Series E-ISSN: 2192-7065

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 98

  • Number of Illustrations: 32 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Human Physiology

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