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More resources here:

Best kidney animation ever from biologymad.com

Quick guide to thekidney from kidneypatientguide.org.uk

Complete tutorial from Sumanas

Very detailed animations from University of British Columbia

Bilingual (Chinese and English) guide to the kidney, with rave tunes from hkedcity.net

More Loop of Henle action from the University of Colorado

Hormonal control of ADH from McGraw Hill

Diabetes recap from MedMovie

Kidney quiz from ZeroBio

Mystery kidney illness kills thousands in South America, from AP.

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Want to see a kidney stone?

Find out more about kidney stones here.

And here’s Anthony Atala on printing a human kidney!

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