Suggested Readings

Björk L and Nylén O.  Cineradiographic investigations of contraction in the normal upper urinary tract in man.  Acta Radiologica Diagnosis, 12:25-34, 1975

Constantinou CE.  Renal pelvic pacemaker control of ureteral peristaltic rate.  Am J Physiol.  226: 1413-1419, 1974.

Djurhuus JC, Frokjaer J, Jorgensen TM, Knudsen L, Pham T and Constantinou CE.  Regulation of renal pelvic pressure by diuresis and micturition.   J. Physiol. 259 (Regulatory Integrative Comp. Physiol. 28) R637-R644, 1990.

Dwyer TM, Bigler SA, Moore NA, Carroll JF and Hall JE.  The altered structure of renal papillary outflow tracts in obesity.  Ultrastructural Path.  24: 251-257, 2000.

Dwyer TM and Schmidt-Nielsen B.  The renal pelvis: Machinery that concentrates urine in the papilla.  News Physiol Sci. 18: 1-6, 2003

Gosling JA and Constantinou CE.  The origin and propagation of upper urinary tract contraction waves.  A new in vitro methodology.   Experientia, 32: 266-267,  1976.

Gosling JA and Dixon JS.  Morphologic evidence that the renal calyx and pelvis control ureteric activity in the rabbit.  Am. J. Anat. 130: 393-408, 1971.

Gullans SR.  Metabolic basis of solute transport.  Brenner and Rector’s The Kidney. Sixth edition BM Brenner (ed.) Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders Company.  Chapter 5, pp 215-246, 2000.

Hannappel J and Lutzeyer W.  Pacemaker localization in the renal pelvis of the unicalyceal kidney.  In vitro study in the rabbit.  Eur. Urol. 4: 192-194, 1978.

Henle J.  Zur Anatomie der Niere (On the anatomy of the kidney).  Abhandlungen der Königich Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen.  Göttingen: Verlag der Dieterichschen Buchhandlung. 10: 1-34, 1862.

Hyrtl J.  Das Nierenbecken der Säugethiere und des Menschen.  Akademie Wissenschaftlichen Math. Naturwiss. Wien  31: 107-140, 1870.

Knepper MA, Chou C-L and Layton HE.  How is urine concentrated in the renal inner medulla.  Contr. Nephrol.   102: 144-160, 1993.

Knepper MA, Saidel GM, Hascall VC and Dwyer TM.  Solute concentration in the renal inner medulla: Interstitial hyaluronan as a mechano-osmotic transducer.  Am. J. Physiol. (Renal Physiol.) 284: F1-F15, 2003.

MacPhee PJ and Michel CC. Subatmospheric closing pressures in individual microvessels of rats and frogs.  J. Physiol. (Lond.) 484: 183-187, 1995.

MacPhee PJ and Michel CC. Fluid uptake from the renal medulla into the ascending vasa recta in anesthetized rats.  J. Physiol (Lond) 487: 169-183, 1995.

Narath PA.  The hydromechanics of the calyx renalis. J. Urol. 43: 145-176, 1940.

Puigvert A.  Calyceal urodynamics.  Urol. Int.  30:282-296, 1975.

Puigvert A.  Semiologia medular del rinon: estudio clinico y radiografico.  Barcelona: Editorial JIMS.  1984.

Reinking LN and Schmidt-Nielsen B.  Peristaltic flow of urine in renal papillary collecting ducts of hamsters.  Kidney  Int. 20: 55-60, 1981.

Schmidt-Nielsen BM.  Function of the renal pelvis.  Comparative Physiology.   Kinne RKH, Kinne-Saffran E, Beyenbach KW (eds.). Volume 2: 103-140, 1990.

Schmidt-Nielsen  BM. The renal concentrating mechanism in insects and mammals: a new hypothesis involving hydrostatic pressures. Am. J. Physiol. 268 (Regulatory Integrative Comp. Physiol. 37): R1087-R1100, 1995. (The Krogh lecture of 1994)

Schmidt-Nielsen B and Graves B.  Changes in fluid compartments in hamster renal papilla due to peristalsis in the pelvic wall.  Kidney Int. 22: 613-625, 1982.

Schmidt-Nielsen B, Churchill M and Reinking LN.  Occurrence of renal pelvic refluxes during rising urine flow rate in rats and hamsters.  Kidney Int. 18: 419-431, 1980.

Schmidt-Nielsen B and Mackay WC.  Comparative physiology of electrolyte and water regulation, with emphasis on sodium, potassium, chloride, urea and osmotic pressure.  Clinical Disorders of Fluid and Electrolyte Metabolism.  Third edition.  MH Maxwell and CR Kleemanx (ed.)  Basel: Karger. pp 37-89, 1980.

Steinhausen M.  In-Vivo Beobachtungen an der Nierenpapille von Goldhamstern nach intravenöser Lissamingrün-Injection. Pflügers Arch. 279: 195-213, 1964.

Yamaguchi OA and Constantinou CE.  Renal calyceal and pelvic contraction rhythms.  Am. J. Physiol. 257 (Regulatory Integrative Comp. Physiol. 26) R788-R795, 1989.