References and Links

Useful textbooks:

• Anatomy & physiology : the unity of form and function (3^rd edition)

        Author: Kenneth S. Saladin with Leslie Miller

        Publisher: Boston : McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2003

• Biology (7^th edition)

        Author: Neil A. Campbell, Jane B. Reece

        Publisher: San Francisco, Calif. ; London : Pearson/Benjamin Cummings, 2005

• Biology : the unity and diversity of life (10^th edition)

        Author: Cecie Starr, Ralph Taggart

        Publisher: Belmont, Calif. : Brooks/Cole, 2004

 

Useful websites:

• www.kidney.org.uk/main/faqs.html
• www.arizonatransplant.com/healthtopics/index.html
• kidney.niddk.nih.gov/Kudiseases/pubs/yourkidneys/
• ahobart.net/oldsite/biology/advanced/htmlpages/kidney.htm

   

Other Sources:

Wikipedia and Flickr sites provided information and copyright-friendly images used in this website:

• Wikipedia Encyclopedia
• Wikimedia Commons
• Wikibooks
• Flickr

Further Reading:

V Gattone (2009)

Kidney structure and function.

Microscopy and Microanalysis 15 74-75

 

V. Torres, P. Harris, Y. Pirson (2009)

Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease.

The Lancet 369(9569) 1287-1301

 

Levey AS, Stevens LA, Schmid CH, et al (2009)

A new equation to estimate glomerular filtration rate.

Ann Intern Med. 150 604-612

 

 

Lesley A. Stevens, M.D., Josef Coresh, M.D., Ph.D., Tom Greene, Ph.D., and Andrew S. Levey, M.D (2006)

Assessing kidney function - measured and estimated glomerular filtration rate.

The New England Journal of Medicine 354 2473-2483

 

Anderson S, Brenner BM (1987)

The aging kidney: structure, function, mechanisms, and therapeutic implications.

J Am Geriatr Soc. 35(6) 590-593

 

Bodil Schmidt-Nielsen and Roberta O'Dell (1961)

Structure and concentrating mechanism in the mammalian kidney.

Am J Physiol 200 1119-1124

 

Daniel C. Pease (1955)

Fine structures of the kidney seen by electron microscopy.

J. Histochem. Cytochem 3(4) 295