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Chapter Eleven, part 1: Regulation of Acid-Base Balance

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Is There a Negative Effect of Net Acid Excretion?

There is a neat mechanism when we get to the ammonia and ammonia recycling where you get hydrogen secretion in the thickest. And that's kind of a cool mechanism. We'll get to that later. So after net acid excretion, we are back to proximal acidification. The distal tube collecting duct is what secretes the protons. It takes three bicarb with along with a sodium. I do think it's weird that you do have that sodium there, but seems to go along.

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