Abstract:Realistic and comprehensive mathematical models of the renal concentrating mechanism lead to large Systems of nonlinear differential equations. Their complexity can be considerably reduced by combining like tubules into common structures. Then the different lengths of the combined tubules have to be modeled by the shunt flow technique. The present paper investigates the validity of this methodology.
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