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Efferent

Efferent

moving or carrying outward or away from a central part. Refers to vessels, nerves, etc. For example: blood vessels carrying blood away from the heart or nerves carrying signals from the brain.

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Oxygen levels in glomeruli

... substances are filtered out of the blood. This is why the concentrations of different substances differ between the afferent arteriole and the efferent arteriole. Now, in our textbook it says that although the glomeruli do not decrease the amount of oxygen in the blood, the concentration of ...

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by Ichneumon
Sat Feb 21, 2009 5:11 pm
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: Oxygen levels in glomeruli
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Views: 306

Re: Developmental Biology-I need help

... Differ. 2007 Jun;49(5):373-82. Suli A, Mortimer N, Shepherd I, Chien CB. Netrin/DCC signaling controls contralateral dendrites of octavolateralis efferent neurons. J Neurosci. 2006 Dec 20;26(51):13328-37. Wilson BD, Ii M, Park KW, Suli A, Sorensen LK, Larrieu-Lahargue F, Urness LD, Suh W, Asai ...

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by jonmoulton
Fri Nov 07, 2008 7:03 pm
 
Forum: Molecular Biology
Topic: Developmental Biology-I need help
Replies: 1
Views: 568

Re: help

... breathe out the inhaled air. It usually helps, and 3. Make a continous massage of the smallest fingers (using other fingers) in both hands. The efferent response also always helps.

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by abbassido
Wed Aug 06, 2008 8:12 am
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: help
Replies: 9
Views: 1518

Hello friends

... mainly * hormonal through many different hormones secreted from adrenal medulla and zona glomerulosa in the adrenal cortex and affect mainly efferent areriole and is accompanied by Na and K retension , Also ADH from supra optic and paraventricular nuclei in the hypotalamus * others like in ...

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by ahm_k1
Fri Mar 21, 2008 2:02 pm
 
Forum: Physiology
Topic: Kidney
Replies: 5
Views: 2587

Hydrostatic Pressure

... point secondary to the fact that it just came from primary circulation. Once the blood has circulated through the kidney in then exits through the efferent arterioles. At this point hydrostatic pressure has been greatly reduced. The filtered blod then re-enters systemic circulation or is secreted ...

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by D_GILL911
Thu Dec 20, 2007 2:51 am
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: why is hydrostatic pressure in glomerular capillary so high?
Replies: 9
Views: 2091
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