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Ureters

• carries waste

Bladder

• holding tank basically

Urethra

• tubes that empties the bladder

Renal Arteries

• blood flows through from the heart

Glomerulus

• capillaries that are the beginning of the nephron

Beginning of the Nephron

Bowman's capsule

• this liquid is called filtrate including water, urea, ions and molecules

Proximal Convoluted Tubule

• mostly organic solutes reabsorbed like glucose and amino acids
• helps to recapture sodium and potassium

Loop of Henle

• long and hairpin shaped
• most or the reabsorption happens in this loop
• extracts most of the water and salts the body needs

Distal Convoluted Tubule

• regulates levels of potassium, sodium and calcium

Collected Ducts

Medulla

• center of the kidney
• salty

Osmoregulation

• has pumps and other types of passive and active transport to filter out water and other materials the body needs

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