KINESIOL 1YY3 Lecture 2: Urinary System

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Main structures: kidneys, ureters (connect kidney & bladder), urinary bladder, & urethra. Kidney is where most of action happens, rest are tubes that move urine around. Urine flows from each kidney, down its ureter to the bladder & to the outside via the urethra. Job of kidneys is to filter blood & return most of water & solutes to the bloodstream. Doesn"t filter all of blood, only filters plasma component (ions & fluids), rest is excreted as urine. First called a filtrate (unfiltered) then turns into urine (filtered) Abdominal aorta to the right & left renal arteries;right & left renal veins to ivc. At rest, 20% of cardiac output is being sent to the kidneys, can go up to as much as. During exercise, we divert some blood away from the kidneys so we don"t filtrate them; vasoconstrict towards the kidneys (fight or flight) Above the waist just below the level of the liver, retroperitoneal (outside the peritoneum)

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