3 different regions? Urinary system.
Cortex- outermost layer
medulla- inner layer
pelvis-hollow chamber entrance for blood vessels + utter
The kidneys
Attached to dorsal abdomen
Dynamic process
Homeostasis → dynamic process regulates
, Temp,blood glucoses,blood pH, blood pressure
Role of excretion
Control systems balance
-Balance inputs and outputs
-shut off mechanism
- can’t have consistency
Where is urea produced?
Organs of excretion
-Kidney
-lungs
-Skin
- liver
+ve and -ve feedback mechanisms
Neg = most common, reduces stim that it effects
Posit= less common, enhances stim
The nephron is located in.?
The kidney
The bowman’s capsule
(3) Attached to the bowman’s capsule)
-Highly coiled tube
Proximal tubule (3)
Loop of henle -(attached to proximal tubule)
Large u shaped tube
- extends to medulla region of the kidney
Coiled tube, downstream of Henle
(5) distal tubule
Collecting tubule
Pressure sends water & solutes into the bowman’s capsule
-blood & proteins are big to be in cappileres
Glomerous/Bowman’s capsule
-filtrate flows through
-useful réabsorption —> intoblood by diffusion and active transport
Na+ ions réabsorba into medulla
-longer the loop the more Na+ absorbed
Fine tuning of blood concentrations
-réabsorption (nephron to blood
-tubular secretion (blood to nephron)
Summary of the Nephron
-not a filter
Réabsorption and secretion occur by active transport,so contractions of blood can be maintained: homeostasis
Endocrine control
(Produced in gland and secreted in blood)
The Endocrine gland:
Organ that produces & secretes hormones