BIO202H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Nephron, Chondrichthyes, Renal Corpuscle

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Marine challenges: the environment is more salty than the fish, the fish end up drinking some water or getting water from food. This leaves them with: they have to get that salt excreted from the gills. So they have the tendency to lose water: they can solve this by produce highly concentrated urine or drink some of the water, major production of urine in fish is ammonia. It is a challenge for some of the marine fish some marine fish has lost the glomerulus so that they can retain as much water through the renal-tubule. They constrict the blood flow so that they are not releasing as much water as they would normally. Pulling salt from inside of fish to outside environment. There are normally 2 pumps one for sodium and one for potassium. There is a higher concentration of sodium on the inside of the fish body. This is good because sodium pumps are good exchangers.

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