COUPLING A TUBULOGLOMERULAR FEEDBACK NEPHRON MODEL WITH A MYOGENIC AFFERENT ARTERIOLE MODEL

摘要

This paper presents numerical and computational aspects of coupling two complex dynamic mathematical models from renal physiology, the tubuloglomerular feedback (TGF) and the myogenic models. Although these two flow models are very different mathematically, they are physically coupled and can be incorporated into one model through a flow resistance approach. Here we present a computational algorithm to solve this combined model and some results of the numerical simulations.