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Ch. 40 - Water and Electrolyte Balance in Animals

Chapter 39, Problem 7

Explain why mammals would not be able to produce concentrated urine if their nephrons lacked loops of Henle.

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Hello everyone and welcome to today's video. So the concentrated urine is produced by blank. No difference because of the presence of blank. I want you to think about this question in this way, where is your in concentrated or diluted in the body? And it's going to be in the kidney, specifically in the loop of hand. Where if we have a longer loop of Hanley, we're going to have more concentrated hearing. Now that we know this. Let's look at the net franz presence in that area and understand which one would produce the more concentrated urine because it has a longer loop of Hamlet. And here I have the two types for us to use. First of all, we have these cortical difference and these cortical net friends have no or very short loose of Handley. Then we have the Jackson Medal erin reference and they have very long loaves of handless. Since we know that longer little handless lead to more concentrated urine. The correct Neff rinse that would create the more concentrated urine will be the judge of that medal. Eight. This is going to be represented by answer choice. So, the concentrated urine is produced by Jackson meddling reference because of the presence of a long or a longer loop of hand. There is a final answer to our question and I really hope this video helped you
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