Renal potassium transport: the pioneering studies of Gerhard Giebisch.

An essay is presented regarding the six papers published in the "American Journal of Physiology" that is freely available online including "Micropuncture study of renal potassium excretion in the rat." The author mentions that the papers were made possible by the skills and imagination of Malnic, Giebisch, and Klose. He states that the papers showed that potassium is resorbed by the proximal tubule and the loop of Henle and that it offer insight into potassium transport's cellular mechanism.