Sentences with phrase «individual kidney filter»
All are synonyms for the slow, relentless, age - related inflammation that gradually destroys your pet's individual kidney filter units, the nephrons.
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In healthy individuals, gadolinium remains in the blood stream and is filtered out by the kidneys.
The kidneys of low birth weight individuals have a significantly impaired ability to filter and excrete foreign compounds, Cherala said.
Elevated levels of creatinine in the blood — which indicates how well the kidneys are filtering waste — and high protein levels in urine — a condition called proteinuria — can alert clinicians that an individual is suffering from chronic kidney disease.
That is because, as I mentioned earlier, the kidneys of dogs, cats and humans have large, built - in reserves — many more individual filtering units (= nephrons) than are required to cleanse the blood.