@inproceedings{f96ad9c79b9b41c8b96eabeccac0067b,
title = "A shunt model of the inner medullary nephron with pre-bend transitions",
abstract = "Mathematical models of the renal medulla face the problem of representing water and solute transfer among tens of thousands of nephrons and blood vessels of various lengths, arranged in countercurrent fashion. Published models fall into two broad categories with respect to this issue: multi-nephron models, which explicitly represent a large number of individual nephrons, or lumped models with virtual shunts that represent the turning back of nephrons and vessels at varying depths. Shunt models have the advantage of a compact description and relatively rapid execution time but are ill-suited to faithfully represent features such as prebend transitions of epithelial permeabilities in nephrons of different lengths. A new shunt model approach that can accommodate pre-bend transitions of nephrons at all medullary depths is presented in this work together with the results of simulation of predicted flows and concentrations.",
keywords = "Kidney, Nephron, Pre-bend transition, Shunt model",
author = "Gonzalez, {M. T.} and Hegarty, {A. F.} and Thomas, {S. R.}",
year = "2009",
doi = "10.1063/1.3241372",
language = "English",
isbn = "9780735407091",
series = "AIP Conference Proceedings",
pages = "1469--1471",
booktitle = "Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics - International Conference on Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics 2009, ICNAAM-2009",
note = "International Conference on Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics 2009, ICNAAM-2009 ; Conference date: 18-09-2009 Through 22-09-2009",
}