Hindered transport of macromolecules through a single row of cylinders: application to glomerular filtration.
Hindered transport of macromolecules through a single row of cylinders: application to glomerular filtration.
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阻碍大分子通过单排圆柱体的运输:应用于肾小球滤过。
DOI:
10.1115/1.2794202
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发表时间:
1995
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通讯作者:
Deen,WM
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作者:
Drumond,MC;Deen,WM
The slit diaphragms of renal glomerular capillaries form an ultrafiltration barrier which may be approximated as a row of cylindrical fibers of macromolecular dimensions. To describe the hindered transport of plasma proteins and other macromolecules through this barrier, we developed an approximate hydrodynamic model for spherical, Brownian particles passing through a row of infinitely long cylinders. The selectivity of the slit diaphragm was assessed by computing concentration profiles for a wide range of molecular sizes for Pe ≤ 1, where Pe is a Peclet number based on the cylinder radius. The sieving coefficient for the slit diaphragm was computed as θSD= CB/CO, where COwas the average concentration at a specified distance upstream from the cylinders (corresponding to the location of the basement membrane), and CBwas the concentration far downstream (corresponding to Bowman’s space). The results of previous experimental sieving studies using rats could be accounted for approximately by postulating a wide distribution of spacings between the fibers of the slit diaphragm. Comparing the results for θSDwith calculations for a model of the glomerular basement membrane suggests that the slit diaphragm is by far the more size-restrictive part of the overall barrier.