Micropuncture study of the kidney in sheep: effects of iodoacetate on renal urea handling.

1. The effects of intrarenal infusion of iodoacetate, an inhibitor of anaerobic glycolysis, on urea transport in kidney of sheep was studied by micropuncture free-flow technique. 2. Iodoacetate decreased the tubular fluid to plasma urea ratio in late distal tubules only; no changes were found in both the late proximal and early distal tubules. Fractional delivery of urea to the same superficial segments of nephron and the urea excretion by whole kidney were not significantly influenced. 3. Our results do not support the concept of active urea transport in the kidney of sheep which would be dependent on energy derived from anaerobic metabolism.