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In particular, the cells of these tubules are able
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to reabsorb the molecules that you need.
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They reabsorb a lot of water, they reabsorb a lot of sodium,
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potassium, bicarbonate, and they do that
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without reabsorbing a lot of the waste products you don't need like urea;
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as you might guess given this configuration that
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there's some interplay between the activities
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that happen at different parts of the tubule.
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That is, if sodium is being reabsorbed in the proximal tubule,
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which it is, then where does that sodium go?
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It's pumped out of the tubule and into the space around--
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into the space of the kidney surrounding it