Abstract
IT appears that threshold substances fall into two groups as regards their mode of tubular resorption. Glucose, xylose, phosphate, sulphate, amino acids and ascorbic acid on one hand have a definite Tm1,2 value (maximal tubular resorption, mgm./min.) which is a measure of the active tubular cell-mass ; the resorption of chloride and bicarbonate ions3,4, on the other hand, is proportional to the quantity of glomerular filtrate.
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GERGELY, J. Factors Influencing the Renal Threshold. Nature 163, 449 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/163449a0
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