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- Title
Endocrine functions of the renal interstitium.
- Authors
Kurtz, Armin
- Abstract
This review aims to summarize the knowledge about the sensor and endocrine response functions of resident interstitial cells of the kidney. By the production of renin, erythropoietin and arachidonate metabolites (medullipin) subsets of renal interstitial fibroblasts and pericytes in different kidney zones play a central role in salt, blood pressure and oxygen homeostasis of the body. Common to these endocrine functions is that their regulation mainly occurs by (de)recruitment of active cells.
- Subjects
ENDOCRINE system physiology; INTERSTITIAL cells; ERYTHROPOIETIN; HOMEOSTASIS; ARACHIDONIC acid
- Publication
Pflügers Archiv: European Journal of Physiology, 2017, Vol 469, Issue 7/8, p869
- ISSN
0031-6768
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00424-017-2008-9