02.2 Functional Histology Flashcards
What is the vascular pole?
Afferent and efferent arterioles attached to the glomerulus.
What is the urinary pole?
Other side to the vascular pole.
Where the ultra filtrate is collected.
What layers is the filtration barrier made up of?
Capillary endothelium.
Basement membrane.
Podocytes of the visceral layer of the Bowman’s capsule.
What cells make up the proximal convoluted tubule?
Simple cuboidal epithelium with brush border.
What cells make up the thin limbs of the loop of Henle?
Simple squamous epithelium.
What cells make up the thick ascending limb of the loop of Henle?
Simple cuboidal epithelium.
What are the cells that make up the distal convoluted tubule?
Simple cuboidal epithelium.
Large lumen.
What cells make up the collecting duct?
Simple cuboidal epithelium.
Very large, irregular lumen.
What does the juxtaglomerular apparatus consist of?
Macula densa cells.
Juxtaglomerular cells (of afferent arteriole).
Extraglomerular mesangial cells.
What is the renal corpuscle?
Glomerulus
Bowman’s capsule
