SOCI 113 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Red Blood Cell, Posterior Pituitary, Blood Plasma
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The kidneys function to regulate many aspects of our blood, and more importantly homeostasis. As the blood arrives, the kidneys can decide to keep material in the blood or pass it along into urine this is a very important function!! I think of it as our body"s garbage can. We can keep the things you want and throw away things we don"t want. Thus the kidneys play a role in acid-base balance of blood. Elimination of waste products the body produces a number of waste products through normal functioning, most of these contain nitrogen from amino acids (proteins) Uric acid (nucleic acid metabolism) creatinine (muscle metabolism) if these waste products or any other drug or toxin are found in the blood within the kidneys they are excreted into the urine to be removed. The kidney blood vessels and ureter attached at hilus.
