These findings indicate that sexual dimorphism exists in remnant kidney growth and function two months following UNX. Indeed, morphological abnormalities and impairment in renal phosphate handling are affected by gonadal steroids by two-months post-UNX. The fact that renal Pi transport was reduced in female but not male UNX rats may also have important implications during periods of high metabolic demand for phosphate in the female.

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