KINESIOL 2YY3 Lecture 18: L18 Urinary (Renal System)

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Most of the action is happening in the kidneys. Keep what it wants, release what it doesn"t want. Once the initial filtrate gets created in our kidneys. The rest of the kidney"s tubule system is a long conveyer belt which enters the urine. The end of the tubule system is where the urine is produced. We have large blood vessels leading into and out of our kidneys. Lead to our ascending vena cava and our abdominal aorta. 20% of your cardiac output (blood pumped out of your heart per minute) is sent to your kidneys to be filtered. Billirubin of our red blood cells is excreted. Becomes urobillirubin - get rid of in urine. The kidneys remove more fluid if you have high blood pressure to lower the blood volume and pressure. If low, the kidneys try to absorb more fluid to increase blood volume and pressure. Conserve or remove h ions if need to change ph.

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