MCDB 111 Study Guide - Final Guide: Renal Blood Flow, Podocyte, Renal Artery

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The body is about 60% water: 40% is extracellular, 60% is intracellular. Extracellular fluid: there is a constant flow of fluid between these compartments of extracellular fluid. They have approximately the same compositions (ions, solutes, ph, etc. : the role of the kidney is to regulate the volume and composition of the extracellular fluid. It works directly on the plasma, but since there is constant exchange between the extracellular compartments, it regulates all of these fluids. *** all of this is accomplished by the ability of the kidney to make urine of. Each kidney has a renal artery and renal vein it is this blood that gets processed. The functional unit for making urine is the nephron: there are about 1,000,000 nephrons/kidney, nephron has two components: Tubular where the urine is formed and transported. First step: filtration: the goal of filtration is to: Have water with small solutes move into bowman"s capsule.

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