This work confirms that distal nephron pathology is a significant component of postnatal mouse UUO. ... connecting tubule, and distal tubule segments.

Connecting-tubule and collecting-duct segments are those that ... Vasopressin also regulates salt transport in the distal convoluted tubule, which is present in each nephron a short distance ...

The human kidney is made up of about a million nephrons, the filtering units of this complex and highly vascular organ. Each nephron is composed of a highly coiled tubule, one end of which forms a ...