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Urinary Concentrating and Diluting Processes

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Body fluid osmolality is normally maintained within narrow bounds through the control of body water balance. Water intake is regulated to some degree by the thirst mechanism(1) However, the chief means by which body water balance is so precisely maintained is the regulation of renal water excretion.

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Knepper, M.A., Stephenson, J.L. (1986). Urinary Concentrating and Diluting Processes. In: Andreoli, T.E., Hoffman, J.F., Fanestil, D.D., Schultz, S.G. (eds) Physiology of Membrane Disorders. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2097-5_39

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