Sunday, 7 April 2013

Kidney

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The kidneys are organs that Serve several Essential regulatory roles in the most animals. Including vertebrates and some the Invertebrates. They was Essential in the urinary system and also serve Homeostatic in Functions such as the Regulation of the Electrolytes. Maintenance of the acid base balance and Regulation of the blood pressure .via maintaining salt and water balance. They serves the body as a natural filter of the blood, and remove the wastes which are diverted to the urinary bladder. In producing urine the kidney excrete wastes such as urea and ammoniums and they are also responsible for the Reabsorption of the water glucose and amino acids.

  The kidneys also produce the hormones Including calcitriol erythropoietin and the enzyme renin.
Located at the Rear of the abdominal cavity in the Retroperitoneum. The kidneys receive in the blood from the paired renal arteries and drain in to the paired renal veins. Each kidney the excretes urine in to a ureter. it self a paired structure that empties in to the urinary bladder.     

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