BIOL 1082 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Aquaporin, Active Transport, Cotransporter

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Osmotic regulation ii (reading: concepts: 44. 3-44. 5 in textbook: name the primary components of the mammalian kidney, detailing where and how the processes of filtration, reabsorption, secretion, and excretion occur. Each kidney has an outer renal cortex and an inner renal medulla. Both regions are supplied with blood by a renal artery and drained by a renal vein. The excretory tubules carry and process a filtrate produced from the blood entering the kidney. Nearly all of the fluid in the filtrate is reabsorbed into the surrounding blood vessels and exists in the kidney in the renal vein. The remaining fluid leaves the excretory tubules as urine, is collected in the inner renal pelvis, and exits the kidney via the ureter. Weaving back and forth across the renal cortex and medulla are the nephrons, the functional units of the vertebrate kidney. Most are cortical nephrons, which reach only a short distance into the medulla.

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