The collecting duct facilitates water osmosis into the blood by following the osmotic gradient established by sodium ions.
This explains that the collecting duct allows water to osmose into the blood by following the concentration gradient created by sodium ions.
| Text | the collecting duct is permeable to water so that it can osmose into the blood, following the concentration gradient created by the sodium ions. |
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