Affiliation:
1. Department of Foundational Medical Studies, Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine, Rochester, Michigan, United States
Abstract
Countercurrent multiplication is widely accepted as the mechanism for the generation of the corticopapillary osmotic gradient in the outer medulla of mammalian kidneys, but the current explanations of it in textbooks and the literature are inefficient and incomplete, leading to confusion for students. This article shares a modified version of countercurrent multiplication with more understandable explanation as a way of motivating peer discussion, further improvement, and future research.
Publisher
American Physiological Society
Subject
General Medicine,Physiology,Education