Membrane Transport and Renal Physiology

Ion Channel Fluxes.- Ionic energetics in narrow channels.- The physical basis of ion channel kinetics: the importance of dynamics.- The use of streaming potential measurements to characterize biological ion channels.- Cotransporter Fluxes.- A kinetic model for secondary active transport.- Asymmetry of the AE1 anion exchange system: implications for modeling the physiological rates of chloride-bicarbonate exchange.- Epithelial ion transport: perspectives on a working mechanism of the sodium pump.- Epithelial Transport.- Assessing homeostatic properties of epithelial cell models: application to kidney proximal tubule.- Fiber Matrix Theory / Capillary Membrane Transport.- Limitations in the application of fiber-matrix models to glomerular basement membrane.- Transport of macromolecules across the peritoneum.- The Urine Concentrating Mechanism.- Urinary concentrating mechanism.- Urine concentrating mechanism: measured permeability values in medullary nephron segments and urea transport processes.- Transport processes in the microcirculation of the renal medulla.- Mathematical models of the mammalian urine concentrating mechanism.- Lactate accumulation in kidney inner medulla: a vasa recta model.- Renal Hemodynamics and Tubuloglomerular Feedback.- Kidney-specific responses of myogenic autoregulation to inhibition of nitric oxide synthase.- TGF gain and effector mechanism: technical and theoretical considerations.- Analysis of generative and dissipative flow-dependent mechanisms in tubuloglomerular feedback.- A reduced model for nephron flow dynamics mediated by tubuloglomerular feedback.- Dynamic model of nephron-nephron interaction.- List of workshop participants.