BIOSC 1250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Renal Artery, Extracellular Fluid, Descending Aorta

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Early in this course, we stressed the need to maintain a constancy of the fluid environment in the body. We spent a while discussing the importance of the circulatory system in this process. Clearly, in order for interstitial fluid levels of substances to be kept at appropriate levels, blood levels must also be kept at appropriate levels. We just finished discussing how the respiratory system accomplishes this for gases - both gases needed for metabolic substrates (i. e. , o2) and waste gases (i. e. , co2). The kidneys, along with the digestive system, serve a similar function for non-gaseous substances. For example, during metabolism we produce organic waste products. As we shall discuss in detail over the next few classes, they are removed from the blood by the kidneys. Let"s consider for a moment two of the most critical components of the extracellular fluid, water and na+ (the major component of extracellular fluid osmolality).

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