Section of Cardio-Renal Physiology and Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Department of 4 Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 5 6 7 8 Corresponding Author: Jennifer S. Pollock, PhD 9 Section of Cardio-Renal Physiology and Medicine 10 Division of Nephrology 11 Department of Medicine 12 University of Alabama at Birmingham 13 720 20 Street S, Kaul 802A 14 Birmingham, AL 35...

The purpose of this paper is to note the importance ?f Richard Bright's Reports of Medical Cases1 for renal physiology, and to ask what the Reports may teach us about the relation between physiology and clinical medicine not only in its own time but also to-day, a century and a half after publication. The greater part and central matter of the Reports are descriptions of twenty-three cases of r...

The physiological processes that maintain body homeostasis oscillate during the day. Diurnal changes characterize kidney functions, comprising regulation of hydro-electrolytic and acid-base balance, reabsorption of small solutes and hormone production. Renal physiology is characterized by 24-h periodicity and contributes to circadian variability of blood pressure levels, related as well to nych...