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Postnatal differentiation of rabbit collecting duct intercalated cells.
Pediatric research - 1 Jan 1996
Matsumoto T, Fejes-Toth G, Schwartz G J
Abstract excerpt
The newborn has a limited ability to regulate H+/HCO3- homeostasis, due in part to immaturity of the intercalated cells in the distal nephron. We traced the postnatal differentiation of the intercalated cells of the rabbit cortical collecting duct (CCD) and outer medullary collecting duct (OMCD) using MAb to the 31-kD subunit of the vacuolar H(+)-ATPase, membrane portion of erythrocyte band 3, and apical surface...
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