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The opening sentence of this article correctly defines renal physiology as the study of the functions of the kidneys. But subsequent paragraphs don't elaborate on this. Rather, the bulk of the article discusses these individual functions, content that belongs at Kidney. This article should be reserved to discuss renal physiology as the branch of physiology that it is, and should include a history of the field, its influential scientists, overview of kidney functions, methods of study (eg, creatinine clearance, BUN), clinical applications, etc. As an example, I was hoping to point to the articles listed at Physiology#Areas of physiology, but only Neuroendocrinology comes close to offering what I've suggested here. I'll have a go at this once exams are over. -- David Iberri ( talk) 14:18, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
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Terms like renal plasma flow, glomerular filtration rate, filtration fraction, etc., and their definitions are perfectly suited for definition lists (as opposed to the current approach that uses tables). IMHO the approach a bit more visually attractive (see below), plus it helps the semantic web: the latter would help our visually impaired readers and it would mean that our terms/definitions would be more likely to appear in Google "define:" searches. Here's an example:
Mostly I'm coming from the perspective that this is just cleaner than using tables. I'd be interested to hear what others think. -- David Iberri ( talk) 02:33, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
The illustration places the Na+/K+/2Cl- transporter, which is in the thick ascending limb of the loop of Henle, in the descending loop of Henle, and the Mg++/Ca++ transporter, which is also in the thick ascending limb, in the thin medullary segment. Yappy2bhere ( talk) 21:18, 19 February 2011 (UTC)