Kidney Tubules #1

by Joseph F. Gennaro Jr.

Title

Kidney Tubules #1

Artist

Joseph F. Gennaro Jr.

Medium

Photograph - Photograph

Description

The kidneys regulate the body fluids, maintaining desirable levels of acids and bases, salts, nutrients and wastes. Each kidney is made up of over a million tiny tubes known as nephrons, or kidney tubules. The tubules act in parallel to filter the blood and produce the urine. As the blood filtrate passes along the tubule, the composition of the fluid is changed in complex ways. In some ways the tubule resembles an industrial processing plant, and the cells lining the walls of the tubule can be thought of as technicians who modify the filtrate as it passes by.

Uploaded

August 7th, 2018

Colors

Embed

Share

Tags