Prostaglandins also make the heart, kidneys and blood vessels work well.

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Dialysis - and this is a method to replace or augment the function of your kidneys, to remove waste products really from the blood, which is something the kidney does continuously.

透析技术,这种技术用来替代,或者增强肾脏功能,以去除血液中的各种废物,就像肾脏持续进行的那样

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The amount of water that you need to have the optimal sort of concentrations of things is determined by how much urine your kidneys produce and how much they excrete each day.

为了保持体内物质的理想浓度,所需的水量,取决于肾脏每天产生,以及排出体外的尿量

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Dialysis is done millions of times per day in this country and around the world, and keeps people alive when their kidneys have failed and they wouldn't survive for even a week without dialysis.

在美国乃至全世界,每天进行着上百万次的透析,肾脏丧失功能的病人靠透析得以存活,如果没有透析他们活不过一个星期

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