2013
DOI: 10.1152/ajprenal.00239.2013
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Architecture of interstitial nodal spaces in the rodent renal inner medulla

Abstract: Every collecting duct (CD) of the rat inner medulla is uniformly surrounded by about four abutting ascending vasa recta (AVR) running parallel to it. One or two ascending thin limbs (ATLs) lie between and parallel to each abutting AVR pair, opposite the CD. These structures form boundaries of axially running interstitial compartments. Viewed in transverse sections, these compartments appear as four interstitial nodal spaces (INSs) positioned symmetrically around each CD. The axially running compartments are se… Show more

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“…Proposed to serve as mixing compartments for NaCl, urea, and water reabsorbate (21), these interstitial nodal spaces are abundant in the rodent outer inner medulla and decline significantly in number with increasing depth below the outer medulla (13,36). If these compartments do play a role in rodent renal physiological processes, then the absence of this architectural feature in the human inner medulla could be related to substantive differences between human and rodent physiology.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Proposed to serve as mixing compartments for NaCl, urea, and water reabsorbate (21), these interstitial nodal spaces are abundant in the rodent outer inner medulla and decline significantly in number with increasing depth below the outer medulla (13,36). If these compartments do play a role in rodent renal physiological processes, then the absence of this architectural feature in the human inner medulla could be related to substantive differences between human and rodent physiology.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Outer medullary interbundle regions are occupied by collecting ducts (CDs), thick ascending limbs, descending thin limbs of long-loop nephrons, and networks of fenestrated interconnecting capillaries (ascending vasa recta) (2, 27). The inner medullary intracluster regions are occupied by collecting ducts, networks of fenestrated interconnecting capillaries (ascending vasa recta), ascending thin limbs, and to a lesser extent aquaporin-1-null descending thin limbs(19,55,74). Unbranched ascending vasa recta residing in the medullary interbundle and intracluster regions(27) are not shown in B.…”
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“…Furthermore, the oxygen consuming tubular elements in the outer medulla, the thick ascending limbs of the loop of Henle (mTALH) and the collecting ducts (CD), are situated chiefly in the inter‐bundle region, at some distance from the long descending vasa recta . In the inner medulla of the rat, each CD is surrounded by closely associated ascending vasa recta, with clusters of descending vasa recta more distant to the CD . In a series of modelling studies of increasing complexity, Layton and Edwards and their colleagues examined the impact of this topography on oxygenation of the outer and inner medulla (multiple publications discussed below).…”
Section: Renal Oxygenation: What Are the Critical Questions Mathematimentioning
confidence: 99%
“…55,56 In the inner medulla of the rat, each CD is surrounded by closely associated ascending vasa recta, with clusters of descending vasa recta more distant to the CD. 57,58 In a series of modelling studies of increasing complexity, Layton and Edwards and their colleagues examined the impact of this topography on oxygenation of the outer and inner medulla (multiple publications discussed below). In addition, using a sophisticated multiscale porous media approach to modelling renal oxygenation, Lee et al modelled oxygen transport in a three-dimensional rat renal medulla.…”
Section: What Makes the Renal Medulla Susceptible To Hypoxia?mentioning
confidence: 99%