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Glomerular Filtration

PA Renal, Winter 2010 Dr. Dave Johnson, Instructor 432 Stella Maris [email protected] Suggested Reading: There is no assigned reading other than this handout. However, a good reference text if you would like to buy one is Koeppen and Stanton’s Renal Physiology, 4 edition, Mosby Elsevier, 2007, For this particular lecture (glomerular filtration), Chapter 3 is the reference chapter to read in this...

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