What are a homeostatic functions of the kidney?

Answer 1

filters all the toxins out of the blood.

Answer 2

Your kidneys are bean-shaped organs, each about the size of your fist. They are located near the middle of your back, just below the rib cage. The kidneys are sophisticated reprocessing machines. Every day, your kidneys process about 200 quarts of blood to sift out about 2 quarts of waste products and extra water. The waste and extra water become urine, which flows to your bladder through tubes called ureters. Your bladder stores urine until you go to the bathroom.

The wastes in your blood come from the normal breakdown of active tissues and from the food you eat. Your body uses the food for energy and self-repair. After your body has taken what it needs from the food, waste is sent to the blood. If your kidneys did not remove these wastes, the wastes would build up in the blood and damage your body.

The actual filtering occurs in tiny units inside your kidneys called nephrons. Every kidney has about a million nephrite's. In the nephron, a glomerulus---which is a tiny blood vessel, or capillary---intertwines with a tiny urine-collecting tube called a tubule. A complicated chemical exchange takes place, as waste materials and water leave your blood and enter your urinary system.

At first, the tubules receive a combination of waste materials and chemicals that your body can still use. Your kidneys measure out chemicals like sodium, phosphorus, and potassium and release them back to the blood to return to the body. In this way, your kidneys regulate the body's level of these substances. The right balance is necessary for life, but excess levels can be harmful.i actually dont know or give a beep but i nedd it for home

Answer 3

The kidneys play a pivotal role in maintaining blood pressure and blood volume in the face of constantly changing pressure, volume, and electrolyte levels. The kidneys do this by concentrating or diluting urine through a process that is so sensitive to detect quantities of ions in the blood at the atomic level. They also release hormones that can regulate vessel size, and therefore blood pressure, as well as red blood cell production, and therefore oxygen delivery and carbon dioxide removal. The kidneys lastly, detect the acid content of the blood and regulate it by filtering out or reabsorbing bases and acids.   

Answer 4

There are two kidneys, the organs that produce urine which is a fluid containing water, ions, and small soluble compounds.In addition to removing waste products generated by body cells the kidneys have several other essential homeostatic functions:
1. Regulating blood volume and blood pressure, by adjusting the volume of water lost in urine, releasing erythropoietin, and releasing renin.
2. Regulating plasma concentrations of sodium, potassium, chloride, and other ions.
3. Controlling calcium ion levels through the synthesis of calcitriol.
4. Helping to stabilize blood pH, by controlling the loss of hydrogen ions and bicarbonate ions.
5. Conserving valuable nutrients while excreting organic waste products, mainly nitrogenous wastes such as urea and uric acid.
6. Assisting the liver in detoxifying poisons.

Answer 5

the homeostatical function of kidney is to regulate the concentration of water and salts in the body through osmoregulation.

Answer 6

control water levels in the body

Answer 7

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