PSL300H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Natriuretic Peptide, Renal Corpuscle, Distal Convoluted Tubule
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The body is made up of 55% water o: how are daily water intake and excretion balanced, how is urine formed? o. Nephrons functional unit of the kidney - powerhouses of the kidneys. Bowmans capsule where the blood gets filtered, where filtration of the bloodin the o o o kidneys happens where it is further modified as it move throughs the nephron. Filtration occurs in bowmans capsule with blood that comes in from the o glomerulus collectively, we call this renal corpuscle filters about 180 l a day o things. Along the points of the nephron filtered blood can be stil reabsorbed or secreted. Becomes more concentrated as it moves into descending limb only water is o being reabsorbed, no solutes are being absorbed here leaving the filtrate more concentrated o o o. Cells in ascending limb reabsorbs the solutes, thus concentration decreases. Aldosterone - increased na reabsorption, and increased k secretion.
