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Impaired Renal Function

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Abstract

Chronic renal failure is a frequent pathological condition in man. An animal model as described by Acott et al. (1987) is of value to test new diuretics under these conditions.

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Hart, S.E. (2015). Impaired Renal Function. In: Hock, F. (eds) Drug Discovery and Evaluation: Pharmacological Assays. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27728-3_19-1

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