What is the function of the kidney and the liver in homeostasis in horses?
Kidneys Filter the blood of waste products and control reuptake of water. So they help maintain a constant low level of ammonia, control acid base balance, very important in horses as they sweat a lot and is the reason we give electrolytes to horses in heavy work especially endurance horses and eventers. Control acid base balance through uptake and removal of sodium and hydrogen ions by the loop of henle in the nephon. Also the collecting duct another part of the nephron can alter its permeability to water depending on the amount of water in the blood (this is why your wee is darker when you havnt been drinking enough, water has been teken back into the blood rather than diluting the urine). Liver Main role is in carbohydrate and lipid homeostasis bit too complicated to go into here but if you google it lots should come up. Lots of info on this subject online look at humans too as it is pretty much the same in both. Also pretty much all biology text books have info on homeostsis and yo
