Resource partitioning promote coexist  of ecologically similar species

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Medullary collecting duct is permeable to urea, and there are special urea transporters that facilitate urea diffusion across the luminal and basolateral membranes

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The concentrating mechanism depends upon the maintenance of a gradient of increasing osmolality along the medullary pyramids

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This gradient is produced by the operation of the loops of Henle as countercurrent multipliers and maintained by the operation of the vasa recta as countercurrent

exchangers 

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A countercurrent system is a system in which the inflow runs parallel to, counter to, and in close proximity to the outflow for some distance. This occurs for both the loops of Henle and the vasa recta in the renal medulla

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A countercurrent system is a system in which the inflow runs parallel to, counter to, and in close proximity to the outflow for some distance. This occurs for both the loops of Henle and the vasa recta in the renal medulla