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Title: URINARY SYSTEM
Description: EDEXCEL PEARSONS BTEC LEVEL 3 APPLIED SCIENCE PASS MERIT DISTINCTION

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PLASMA
The plasma is the liquid portion of blood
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Plasma also acts as a transport system for blood cells, while playing a vital role in maintaining normal
blood pressure
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TISSUE FLUID
Tissue fluid is the fluid that surrounds cells and tissues
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FILTRATE
The blood pressure forces plasma (liquid portion of blood) through the capillary walls within the
glomerulus
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The proteins
and blood cells are usually too large to pass through wall, so they stay in the blood, while the fluid
(filtrate) collects in the capsule and enters the renal tubule
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ELECTROLYTE
Electrolyte is the medical term for an ion or salt in the blood or other bodily fluid that carries a charge
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However, a solution with high
concentration of hydrogen ions will have a lower pH while solutions with a low concentration of
hydrogen ions will have a high pH
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HYDROGEN IONS
Most cells and unicellular creatures keep up the hydrogen particles of the cytoplasm inside of an
extremely thin range fundamental for survival
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What's more, blood additionally has an extremely limit pH
scope of around 7
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Disturbance of this pH whichever way is pernicious to the life form
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This outcome in many compounds working successfully just
in a restricted scope of hydrogen particle fixation
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The body is delicate to its pH level, so intense
systems exist to help look after it
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SELECTIVE REABSORPTION
Particular re-absorption assimilation of a couple of segments of the glomerular filtrate
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Extra
segments, similar to smelling salts and urea, is discharged rather than being assimilated, while certain
particles (potassium), can be both retained and emitted through the tubules because of the ionic parity
inside of the body
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The low focus angle implies the sodium will effectively diffuse into the mass of the
proximal convoluted tubule
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There are different
sorts of these transporter proteins, separately transporting
a particle, similar to glucose or amino acids
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The substances,
sodium particles, glucose, and amino acids all enter the mass
of proximal convoluted tubule, and 65% of water in the
glomerulus filtrate through Osmosis
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Whatever is left of the
water is then reabsorbed into the blood
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Regulation of the acid base balance is important to balance out the pH balance in the blood
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Besides, when breathing or amid physical activity, acid
happens as a waste – result of the cell vitality supply and effects the pH balance
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Carbonic acid creates, which debases to
water and carbon dioxide
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By this implies, the pH balance
in the blood can be controlled rapidly and adequately
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For this reason, they must be recovered ceaselessly by supplying soluble
mineral mixes by means of nourishment
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The kidney is the
main organ that can discharge acid specifically from the body
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Along these lines, the body can direct the acid base equalization through
an expanded breath of carbon dioxide
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Title: URINARY SYSTEM
Description: EDEXCEL PEARSONS BTEC LEVEL 3 APPLIED SCIENCE PASS MERIT DISTINCTION