Tuesday morning

Well I could have gone to school early this morning in order to go to Mamie's free yoga class, but instead of practiced a little yoga here at home and then made a big eggy goat cheese peppers and onions and cilantro burrito. Now digesting and posting for the first time in a day or so. It's nice to be home. I like home.
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Yahoo interviews Ron Paul

This is a pretty good interview, even though the interviewer finishes by asking a bunch of questions about irrelevance such as Superbowl predictions and the hotness/notness of Ann Coulter:

Organ Systems II: Hypertension and Diuretics

( Scan down for the section on hypertension (high blood pressure) and common treatments. )

Organ Systems II: Calcium, Phosphorus & Vitamin D

Calcium regulates nerve excitability and muscle contraction. Low calcium results in muscle twitches. Calcium competes with sodium for voltage gated channels. Calcium also plays a part in neurotransmitter release, blood clotting, bone composition (hydroxyapatite).
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Organ Systems II: Acid Base Balance and Micturition

Plasma pH should be in the 7.2 to 7.6 range.
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Organ Systems II: Embryology of Urinary System

The urogenital system develops from urogenital ridges of the intermediate MESODERM. First stage is pronephros. Next is mesonephros, in which primitive nephrons form and produce some urine (as early as 9 weeks gestation) which goes into the gut tube (cloaca) of the pre-human. The MESONEPHRIC DUCT becomes the ductus deferens. The metanephros is the final form of the kidney. It forms when the URETERIC BUD (aka metanephric diverticulum) branches out from the mesonephric duct and forms the collecting system (ureter, calyces, collecting tubules). It signals the surrounding mesenchyme to become the metanephric blastema, which blasts out the rest of the kidney including the rental tubules. Vascular cells migrate into the blastema and form glomeruli.
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