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  • Title: Water extraction from the inner medullary collecting tubule system: a role for urea.
    Author: Sanjana VM, Robertson CR, Jamison RL.
    Journal: Kidney Int; 1976 Aug; 10(2):139-46. PubMed ID: 966451.
    Abstract:
    Recent examinations of the inner medullary collecting tubule membrane in vitro have demonstrated that its reflection coefficient to urea (sigma urea) is significantly less than unity and less than sigma NaClhe presence of antidiuretic hormone. Fluid entering the inner medullary collecting tubule has a higher urea concentration and lower NaCl concentration than does the medullary interstitium, although total osmolarity is nearly equal on either side of the membrane. The transtubular difference in solute composition, together with the difference between sigma urea and sigma NaCl, should result in a driving force for extraction of water from the tubule. This hypothesis was examined in a differential analysis of water and solute fluxes across the collecting tubule epitheliu. The results indicate that this driving force contributes significantly to water extraction from the inner medullary collecting tubule.
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