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The Urinary System (A&p)
The Urinary System (A&p)
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Urinary System Organs
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Internal Anatomy of the Kidney
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Tubular Reabsorption
▪The kidney must have mechanisms for reabsorption of the many
solutes (Na, K, glucose, chloride) and H2O that it filters each day or in
amatter of minutes we would by depleted of all these substances.
▪ Substances are selectively reabsorbed from the glomerular filtrate.
▪ The preritubular capillary is adapted for reabsorption. It carries low
pressure blood & is very permeable. Most reabsorption (70%), occurs
in the proximal tubule.
▪ Different modes of transport reabsorbs various substances in particular
segments of renal tubule.
▪ Glucose and amino acids by active transport. H2O is reabsorbed by
osmosis. Proteins are reabsorbed by pinocytosis.