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The normal ageing kidney – morphology and physiology

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2008

Juan-F. Macías Núñez
Juan-F. Macías Núñez*
Affiliation:
Faculty of Medicine, University of Salamanca, Spain
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Address for correspondence: Juan-F. Macías Núñez, Departamento de Medicina, C/Alfonso X El Sabio, 37007 Salamanca, Spain. Email: jfmacias@usal.es
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This paper will review some fundamentals of normal renal physiology necessary to understand the changes occurring with age and enable the reader to distinguish between chronic renal insufficiency and the consequences of normal ageing on kidney function.

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Biological gerontology
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Reviews in Clinical Gerontology , Volume 18 , Issue 3 , August 2008 , pp. 175 - 197
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