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Submitted on March 30, 2009
Revised on April 25, 2009

Protective Importance of the Myogenic Response in the Renal Circulation

Anil K. Bidani^*; Karen A. Griffin; Geoffrey Williamson; Xuemei Wang; and Rodger Loutzenhiser

From the Department of Medicine, Loyola University Medical Center and Hines Veterans Affairs Hospital (A.K.B., K.A.G.), Maywood, Ill; Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology (G.W.), Chicago, Ill; and the Smooth Muscle Research Group, University of Calgary (X.W., R.L.), Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

^* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: abidani{at}lumc.edu.

Key words: autoregulation • hypertension • glomerulosclerosis • nephrosclerosis • tubuloglomerular feedback

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