Sentences with phrase «kidney filter units»

The more fluids your pet consumes, the more toxic waste products it will flush from its body with the fewer health kidney filter units (nephrons) that remain.

All are synonyms for the slow, relentless, age - related inflammation that gradually destroys your pet's individual kidney filter units, the nephrons.

Not exact matches

Nearly 20 percent of kidneys that are recovered from deceased donors in the U.S. are refused for transplant due to factors ranging from scarring in small blood vessels of the kidney's filtering units to the organ going too long without blood or oxygen.

The actual filtering occurs in tiny units inside your kidneys called «nephrons».

In advanced CKD, the kidneys are firm due to scar tissue and shrunken and lumpy due to loss of their nephron filtering units.

I mentioned earlier that a pet's normal kidneys have a reserve - a backup supply of filtering units.

Us humans have about 1 million nephron filter units in each of our kidneys.

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.

The glomerulus is the filtration unit of the kidney and when intact it will not allow protein (albumin) to be filtered into the urine.