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Book Title: Evaluating Renal Function In Humans

by Louise Robson

Book Description: This is an intermediate level book aimed at undergraduate and graduate students following human biology programmes who have a basic understanding of renal physiology. It covers the clearance technique, and how it can be used to evaluate renal function in humans. It goes through the different calculations, before giving you an opportunity to have a go at some calculations using real data. It finishes by evaluating the values from a clearance experiment, where the effect of the drug ACTZ was investigated.

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Book Description

This is an intermediate level book aimed at undergraduate and graduate students following human biology programmes who have a basic understanding of renal physiology.  It covers the clearance technique, and how it can be used to evaluate renal function in humans. It goes through the different calculations, before giving you an opportunity to have a go at some calculations using real data. It finishes by evaluating the values from a clearance experiment, where the effect of the drug ACTZ was investigated.

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Louise Robson

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Human biology

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Title
Evaluating Renal Function In Humans
Author
Louise Robson
Licence

Icon for the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License

Evaluating Renal Function In Humans Copyright © 2026 by Louise Robson is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

Primary Subject
Human biology
Institution
University of Sheffield
Publisher
University of Sheffield
Publication Date
January 20, 2026