Homeostasis

Home Up Water Balance Electrolyte Balance

    With all the exchange that occurs in the kidney, the end result must still provide homeostasis of our body fluids.  As we retrieve nutrients from and keep wastes in the glomerular filtrate, we have to maintain our water balance and our normal concentrations of electrolytes.  Exactly what this means is explained in these webpages and in Chapter 21 of your textbook.

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written by Dawn A. Tamarkin, Ph.D.