Biology post-glomular blood question

  • Thread starter Thread starter JimmyRay
  • Start date Start date
  • Tags Tags
    Biology Blood
Join the discussion
Registration is free. Ask a follow-up in this thread, or start your own.
2 replies · 3K views
JimmyRay
Messages
89
Reaction score
0
We are learning the excretory system, and are given a thinking assignment. Okay so we are given a bunch of values for concentration of the substances in the kidney. Basically the post-glomular blood (blood after being filtered by glomerulus) has a little more protien concentration than the venous blood (blood after being reconnected to the vein system in the kidney). Why is that?
 
Physics news on Phys.org
You have to show your own thinking on this problem before we can help. Also, unless you provide us with all the information you're given for the problem, we won't be able to help you much at all.
 
Okay I handed in the assignment already, I THINK I figured it out... here's what I put...

Basically I said the post glomerular blood goes through a second capilllary bed before it connects to the vein system. In that capillary bed there might have been some more water absorbed therefore the protien concentration decreases in the venous blood.

But I am probably wrong X_X...