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Potassium can lower blood pressure, even on a salty diet. Simulations showed that increasing potassium intake significantly ...
If its ortholog, ClC-K1, is nonfunctional in mice, renal diabetes insipidus develops. ClCKB is a key determinant of tubular reabsorption of chloride and electrolytes along the distal tubule.
The role of the kidney in blood glucose-level regulation was until recently underestimated. Renal gluconeogenesis, renal glucose uptake and tubular glucose reabsorption are the three ways of renal ...
Lexicon Pharmaceuticals has reported that LX4211, an inhibitor of the sodium ... via SGLT2 in the renal proximal tubules. So, inhibition of SGLT2 suppresses renal glucose reabsorption and ...
f Due to increased activity of sodium channels ... share a common pathway of increased reabsorption of sodium and chloride in distal tubules and volume expansion, which suppresses plasma renin ...
Sodium acetoacetate ... The mechanism for the renal handling of uric acid, according to recent evidence well summarized by Gutman et al., 24 involves virtually complete reabsorption of all the ...