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. 1986 Nov;50(5):805–813. doi: 10.1016/S0006-3495(86)83521-4

Fluid waves in renal tubules.

T Sakai, D A Craig, A S Wexler, D J Marsh
PMCID: PMC1329805  PMID: 3790686

Abstract

Autoregulation of renal blood flow is ineffective when arterial pressure perturbations occur at frequencies above 0.05 Hz. To determine whether wave propagation velocity to the macula densa is rate limiting, we estimated compliances of the proximal tubule and the loop of Henle, and used these values in a model of pressure and flow as functions of time and distance in the nephron. Compliances were estimated from measurements of pressures and flows in early proximal, late proximal, and early distal tubules in rats under normal and Ringer-loaded conditions. A model of steady pressure and flow in a compliant, reabsorbing tubule was fitted to these results. The transient model was a set of nonlinear, hyperbolic partial differential equations with split, nonlinear boundary conditions, and was solved with finite difference methods. The loop of Henle compliance was larger than the proximal tubule compliance, and impulses in glomerular filtration rate were attenuated in magnitude and delayed in time in the loop of Henle. Simulated step forcings revealed a similar pattern. Periodic variations of GFR were attenuated at frequencies greater than 0.05 Hz, and there was a delay of 5 s between variations in GFR and macula densa flow rate. The high compliance of the loop slows wave propagation to the macular densa and reduces the amplitude of high frequency waves originating in the glomerulus, but other parts of the signal chain also contribute to the slow response of macula densa feedback.

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