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What happend in the kidney as the liquid passes though the nephron?
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As blood passes into and through the glomerulus, due to the high blood pressure coming into the kidney, water and other solutes, eg: urea, glucose, sodium, potassium and other electrolytes, are forced by pressure thru a membrane and into the nephron. Red Blood cells are too big to pass through this, and remain in the blood vessels, if you do have blood in your urine it can be a indicator of a problem in the kidney. This fluid then moves through the nephrons, the proximal convoluting tubule, the loop of Henle, the distal convoluting tubule and into the collecting duct. On the way, through passive and active osmosis, water, electrolytes are removed from the filtrate and back into the body, until the filtrate is the concentrated formula which then flows out the kidney to the bladder.
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When drugs are absorbed through the small intestine do they pass through THE kidney?
Usually, what passes through the kidney are the ones that need to be excreted.
Is water reabsorbed by your body that passes through the kidney?
I have no idea what so ever
What is the liquid that passes through a filter paper and contains any soluble substances from the orriginal mixture?
The name of this liquid is filtrate.
What process occurs in the Bowman's capsule?
Bowmans capsule is part of the functioanl unit of the kidney called the nephron. The kidney job in the body is to filter blood and remove wastes via the urine. At the very start of each nephron is a very smalle blood network called the glomerulus. The diameter pf the vessel leaving the glomerulus (the efferent vessel) is smaller than that coming to the glomerulus (the afferent vessel) and so a large pressure occurs. This helps push the wastes as well as some nutrients and a lot of water out of the glomerulus. To stop if all just floating of into the body a a structue surround the glomerulus and takes up all the thing the glomerulus lets out. This is the glomerulus and it passes what it gets on through the vessels of the nephron where much is reabsorbed and the rest is excreted as urine.
What is a liquid metal conducts electricity and does not change when a current passes through it?
This metal is mercury.
What is the structure of glomerulus?
The glomerulus is a cluster of capillaries that can be found in the kidney. Each cluster is next to a Bowman's capsule, which is the "filter unit" of the nephron. Blood passes from the renal artery into the glomerulus at high pressure, allowing small substances to diffuse into the nephron, via the Bowman's capsule.
The sequence of structures that urea passes through in the nephron is?
A nephron is composed of the Bowman's capsule, the proximal tubule, the loop of the nephron (called the loop of Henle), the distal tubule, and the collecting duct.
How does the kidney achieve a large surface area?
The cells lining the proximal tubules of the nephrons have a highly folded cell membrane on the lumen side of the tubule made of microvilli. This is referred to as a brush border and is important in increasing the surface area for reabsorption of components of the filtrate as it passes down the nephron.
What happen to glucose as it passes trough the kidney?
It Gets the beatdown
Why is sodium a benefit for the human body?
Salt is naturally known to absorb water and is used through out the body as a mechanism to retain water and to effectively absorb and transport it. This mechanism is shown well through a nephron ( kidney cell ) as the waste passes through the nephron the water is absorbed by the salt so we don't have to go to the toilet every 5minutes also the sodium, when working as an antagonist with potassium around a cell, stops the cell from becoming flaccid.
The filtrate within the nephron becomes urine only when it passes through the distal convoluted tubules and enters the collecting ducts?
False
How do kidneys clean the body?
A short, simple answer is that urine is a by product of bodily waste. Kidneys filter impurities. If the kidneys do not do their job in filtering, there is build up in the renal tubules (an area of the renal system leading to the kidneys) and also in the bloodstream. This causes trouble in the body systemically and, if left untreated, can lead to numerous medical problems. In short, the kidneys are the body's filters. Urine is the after product of our body's waste once the kidney's have filtered it. Urine leaves our bodies as a sterile fluid. Angie RN
When drugs are absorbed through the small intestine do they pass through THE kidney?
Usually, what passes through the kidney are the ones that need to be excreted.
What liquid passes through the colon?
Chyme
Is water reabsorbed by your body that passes through the kidney?
I have no idea what so ever
How does heat moves through liquid and gases?
Heat passes through liquid and gases through the process called convection. In solids however it passes through the process of conduction.
Is the filtrate the body that remains on or passes through the filter paper?
The filtrate is the liquid which passes through the filter paper
