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RENAL TUBULAR SECRETION AND REABSORPTION OF ORGANIC BASES IN THE DOG*

1962; American Society for Clinical Investigation; Volume: 41; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1172/jci104537

1558-8238

Jorge Torretti, I. M. Weiner, Gilbert H. Mudge,

Pediatric Urology and Nephrology Studies

1 Bidirectional transport poses a difficult semantic problem.In this paper, secretion and reabsorption are defined in terms of direction of transport without implication as to underlying mechanism, secretion being move- -ment from peritubular fluid into the tubule, and reab- sorption being in the opposite direction.When referring to a given segment of the nephron, one may consider .eithernet segmental secretion or net segmental reabsorp- tion, such terms being defined as a function of the quan-