PHGY 210 Lecture Notes - Reabsorption, Peritubular Capillaries, Glomerular Basement Membrane

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You are not responsible for the material in the textbook not covered in lectures. If one stops working, you can live with using just one. Behind the peritoneum on either side of the vertebral column against the posterior abdominal wall. Location of kidneys very close to the small of your back. At the end of travel, everything leaves through the renal vein. Each kidney contains ~1 million subunits called nephrons. Renal corpuscle: glomerulus (capillary loops, bowmans capsule. Final composition of the urine is very different than whats filtered here. Composition: as if corpuscle is punching into the balloon of the bowman"s capsule. Visceral layer is a mono layer of cells called podocytes. Glomerulus is the place where the first filtration occurs. The three layers are called the filtration barrier. Barriers make sure that nothing that shouldn"t be excreted is (eg: proteins) Three processes of urine formation: glomerular filtration, tubular secretion, tubular reabsorption.

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