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What is urinary system and what are the organs involved in urine formation. How is urine formed in human body. What is nephron

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The urinary system or the Renal systems regulates or takes out waste from the blood, maintain blood pressure, and controls the ion exchange process.

The parts of urinary system includes:

  • Kidneys
  • Ureters
  • Bladder
  • Urethera

Formation of urine :

When the blood passes through the kidney, it filters the blood. This is a 3 step process:

1) Glomerus filtration: This is the place where formation of urine starts. In glomerus, the water and solute from tiny capillaries and enter the capsule of the glomerus.

2) The tubular re-absorption: Most of the water and solute gets reabsorbed through this part

3) Tubular secretion: Extracellular fluid molecules get transferred into the nephron, these secretions get discarded out of the body containing mainly creatinine, urea, uric acid, K+ and H+ ions

NEPHRON :

The simplest unit of kidney and its the basic unit that filter the blood. One kidney has approximately 1. 5 million nephrons!

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