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Physiology — Practice Set 4

The kidney as the guardian of the internal environment: body-fluid compartments, renal clearance and the glomerular filtration rate, glomerular filtration and its autoregulation, tubular reabsorption and secretion, the loop of Henle and countercurrent multiplication, the regulation of water and sodium, potassium, calcium and phosphate handling, and acid-base physiology and its disorders.