In addition, the kidney controls the composition of your body of many important ions, sodium bicarbonate which is important in pH balance, potassium.

此外肾脏还能控制,体内很多重要离子的浓度,例如碳酸氢钠,它对于酸碱平衡十分重要,还有钾离子

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Well that process of control to maintain a constant environment inside our body, whether it's an environment of constant mass or constant composition, or constant temperature, is called homeostasis.

这个控制过程维持着,体内环境的恒定,不论是内环境中物质的量的稳定,或者成分的稳定,或温度的稳定,这种状态叫做内稳态

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By determining how many of those molecules to hold onto, how many to keep in the body, how many to release determines the internal composition with regard to that ion.

通过控制体内这些分子的水平,即体内保有多少,又排出多少,就能够保证内环境中离子组成的稳定

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