describe two processes that take place in the kidney but not in the kidney machine
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Filtration: Filtering masses of water and solutes out of the plasma in blood. This process is driven by hydraulic pressure in the capillaries of the glomerulus.
Reabsorption: Moving water/ solutes back into blood's plasma. There are two types of reabsorption; bulk and regulated. Bulk reabsorption has to do with transporting important solutes actively out of the proximal tubule and for sodium to be reabsorbed in the loop of Henle.
Secretion: The kidney's (in the tubules) secrete additional substances that need to go into the tubular fluid, this usually helps eliminating toxins and is essential for plasma concentration/ balancing pH.
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Explanation:
!) Production of Erythropoiten and Anti-Diuretic harmone
2) conversion of vitamin D into its active form