Tuesday, November 8, 2011

2.71 Ultrafiltration

  • Nephron
    • Filters blood
      • Filtered: Clean / Urine: Waiste
  • Urine
    • Mixture of water, salts, and urea
      • Urea = Nitrogen waste
        • toxic
  • Bowman's Capsulte
    • Where ultrafiltration starts
    • Blood arrives in the kidnes
      • in Afferent arteriole
      • at high pressure
      • with wide blood vessel
    • Passes through Glomerulus
    • Passes out Efferent artiole
      • Narrow blood vessel
    • High pressures
      • Forces the plasma out of the blood vessel
      • Plasma enters the inside of the Bowman's Capsule
        • Glomerula Filtrate

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