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Because of the pressure drop in the glomerulus,
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the low pressure in Bowman's space, this space that surrounds it,
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fluid is driven through the walls of the capillary and collected outside.
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What is produced there is really, what I called last time,
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an ultra-filtrate of plasma.
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That is the urine or the filtrate that's going to become urine, at this point,
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would be identical to plasma in composition
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except all of the big items are removed;
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all the large molecules, all the cells are removed,
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other than that it's identical.
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The concentration of sodium in the filtrate
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is the same as the concentration of sodium in the plasma,