Article
Hereditary distal renal tubular acidosis: new understandings.
Annual review of medicine - 1 Jan 2001
Batlle D, Ghanekar H, Jain S, Mitra A
Abstract excerpt
The primary or hereditary form of distal renal tubular acidosis (dRTA), although rare, has received increased attention recently because of dramatic advances in the understanding of its genetic basis. The final regulation of renal acid excretion is effected by various acid/base transporters localized in specialized cells in the cortical collecting and outer medullary collecting tubules. Inherited defects in two...
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