Urinary System: Kidney Homeostatic Functions
Overview
The urinary system is responsible for more than just removing metabolic wastes from the body. The kidneys play a critical role in maintaining homeostasis by regulating various blood parameters, including volume, pressure, osmolality, solute concentrations, pH, and red blood cell count.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this chapter, students will be able to:
- explain the kidneys role in maintaining blood homeostasis including blood volume, blood pressure, osmolarity, ion concentrations, blood pH, and red blood cell count
Video Review
Watch the video: Kidney Homeostatic Functions, Animation (5 minutes)
Question Sets
Fluid Compartments in the Body & The Sodium/Potassium ATPase Pump
Chapter Attributions
This chapter by Elisabeth Kehrli and Anil Kapoor is licensed under a CC BY 4.0 license.
Media Attributions
Kidney Homeostatic Functions, Animation by Alila Medical Media is licensed under the Standard YouTube license.
Interactive Activity Attributions
The interactive activities in this chapter are from Interactive Activities for Human Anatomy and Physiology by Open Education Lab, Ontario Tech University, and are licensed under a CC BY NC SA 4.0 license.