5.3 Hormonal coordination in humans

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ADH is a hormone made by the pituitary gland that regulates the water balance in the body.

ADH controls how much water is reabsorbed from the kidney tubules.

Table 1 shows the effects of different blood concentrations of ADH.

Table 1

Concentration of ADH in the blood in ng/dm3\text{ng/dm}^3ng/dm3Concentration of dissolved substances in urine in arbitrary unitsRate of urine production in cm3/minute\text{cm}^3/\text{minute}cm3/minute
0.530012.0
1.06008.0
2.08504.8
3.010502.5
4.011501.2

A woman's blood ADH concentration increased from 1.0 ng/dm31.0\text{ ng/dm}^31.0 ng/dm3 to 3.0 ng/dm33.0\text{ ng/dm}^33.0 ng/dm3.

Explain how this increase in the concentration of ADH causes the changes to the urine shown in Table 1.

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