Mathematical modeling of renal tubular glucose absorption after glucose load.

A partial differential Progressive Tubular Reabsorption (PTR) model, describing renal tubular glucose reabsorption and urinary glucose excretion following a glucose load perturbation, is proposed and fitted to experimental data from five subjects. For each subject the Glomerular Filtration Rate was...

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Main Authors: Andrea De Gaetano, Simona Panunzi, Dimitris Eliopoulos, Thomas Hardy, Geltrude Mingrone
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3906102?pdf=render