Tubuloglomerular feedback responses of the downstream efferent resistance: unmasking a role for adenosine?
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Abstract
This Commentary aims to integrate or interrelate the available in vivo data with the in vitro study by Ren and co-workers, which comes to the somewhat surprising conclusion that tubuloglomerular feedback activation vasodilates the efferent arteriole by an adenosine-dependent mechanism.
Medical subject headings
- Adenosine
- Arterioles
- Kidney Glomerulus
- Kidney Tubules