From the 1998 Holiday Lectures — Of Hearts and Hypertension: Blazing Genetic Trails

Kidney Function

Dr. Richard Lifton, along with student volunteers, uses an aquarium and salt to illustrate the amount of work the kidney performs each day to maintain proper levels of ions in the body.

4 min 29 sec
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