Kidney function & anatomy
Science student
old organs involved in handling the urine these are the kidneys the ureter the urinary bladder
and the urethra our goal is to cover the anatomy of all the structures is he here step-by-step I
will start with the kidneys do in this video we're first going to talk about the functions of the
kidneys then we'll talk about the external structures and the coverings of the kidneys after that
will open and cover the internal structures when we're done with the kidneys what we'll talk
about the general and that any of the Nephron which is the functional unit of the kidney all right
so he received the interior view of the body are the kidneys are those deanship paired organs
you have in the back of side within the ribs the first thing you need to keep in mind is that the
right kidney is placed a little lower than the left kidney possibly because the liver occupies a
huge part of the right side of the abdominal cavity but the last one ends approximately as a
vertebra on the right one and surprise me so first of what are the functions of the kidneys there
are three main functions that the kidneys have and they are plasma cells
excretion of waste products and acid-base homeostasis and the kidneys are able to do all that
with the help of something called in the front and we'll talk a little more detail to the Denver but
the head of the Nephron is called the renal corpuscle and this is the part that primarily filtrate the
past month so what are plasma when you first draw blood from the body you will get whole
blood and if you put the tube with the whole blood into a centrifuge and start a machine is going
to spin around so fast that is going to separate the blood that is he here now we're left with pure
erythrocytes at the bottom Buffy coat consisting of white blood cells mainly and plasma so one
whole blood goes through the renal corpuscle the plasma it's going to get filled with it and that's
what we mean with plasma filtration so plasma consists of everything that is not cells so what
are proteins nutritions electrolytes gold metabolic waste products and examples of metabolic
waste products we have with a nurse or ammonia uric acid urea and creatinine and different
types of amino acids as well
call considered as metabolic waste products and they get excreted out through the renal
corpuscle and this is very important is dangerous if we get too much of this waste products tell
your buddy is in a perfect States when there's a balance between acid and base around 7.30
five to seven 4:45 is our natural state where old processes within has happened up to but
sometimes something happened that make our blood either acidic or alkaline called acidosis or
alkalosis we don't like that and when the pH is too deviated it gets even worse and this process
is usually regulated primarily through the lungs and the kidneys now there are other functions
that can use half as well as such as hormone production producing hormones like Everett
reporting that stimulates red blood cell production and vitamin D metabolism by activating the
Time Indy because we tell Mindy in our blood is usually in acted so that's the function of the
kidneys they're very important no that start with the kidneys Anatomy by looking at the external
structures the kidneys are about 120 to 200 g
from but they're about 10 to 13 cm long and 526 CM wide and 4 cm take the kidneys have an
Interpol and a superior Pole and on the Super Bowl you'll find a suprarenal gland resting on it as
a year they also have to margins there's the lateral border or the lack of understanding of the
Science student
old organs involved in handling the urine these are the kidneys the ureter the urinary bladder
and the urethra our goal is to cover the anatomy of all the structures is he here step-by-step I
will start with the kidneys do in this video we're first going to talk about the functions of the
kidneys then we'll talk about the external structures and the coverings of the kidneys after that
will open and cover the internal structures when we're done with the kidneys what we'll talk
about the general and that any of the Nephron which is the functional unit of the kidney all right
so he received the interior view of the body are the kidneys are those deanship paired organs
you have in the back of side within the ribs the first thing you need to keep in mind is that the
right kidney is placed a little lower than the left kidney possibly because the liver occupies a
huge part of the right side of the abdominal cavity but the last one ends approximately as a
vertebra on the right one and surprise me so first of what are the functions of the kidneys there
are three main functions that the kidneys have and they are plasma cells
excretion of waste products and acid-base homeostasis and the kidneys are able to do all that
with the help of something called in the front and we'll talk a little more detail to the Denver but
the head of the Nephron is called the renal corpuscle and this is the part that primarily filtrate the
past month so what are plasma when you first draw blood from the body you will get whole
blood and if you put the tube with the whole blood into a centrifuge and start a machine is going
to spin around so fast that is going to separate the blood that is he here now we're left with pure
erythrocytes at the bottom Buffy coat consisting of white blood cells mainly and plasma so one
whole blood goes through the renal corpuscle the plasma it's going to get filled with it and that's
what we mean with plasma filtration so plasma consists of everything that is not cells so what
are proteins nutritions electrolytes gold metabolic waste products and examples of metabolic
waste products we have with a nurse or ammonia uric acid urea and creatinine and different
types of amino acids as well
call considered as metabolic waste products and they get excreted out through the renal
corpuscle and this is very important is dangerous if we get too much of this waste products tell
your buddy is in a perfect States when there's a balance between acid and base around 7.30
five to seven 4:45 is our natural state where old processes within has happened up to but
sometimes something happened that make our blood either acidic or alkaline called acidosis or
alkalosis we don't like that and when the pH is too deviated it gets even worse and this process
is usually regulated primarily through the lungs and the kidneys now there are other functions
that can use half as well as such as hormone production producing hormones like Everett
reporting that stimulates red blood cell production and vitamin D metabolism by activating the
Time Indy because we tell Mindy in our blood is usually in acted so that's the function of the
kidneys they're very important no that start with the kidneys Anatomy by looking at the external
structures the kidneys are about 120 to 200 g
from but they're about 10 to 13 cm long and 526 CM wide and 4 cm take the kidneys have an
Interpol and a superior Pole and on the Super Bowl you'll find a suprarenal gland resting on it as
a year they also have to margins there's the lateral border or the lack of understanding of the
