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Question 1

what is the role of the kidneys?

Answer 1

Fluid balance
blood volume
blood pressure

Question 2

from renal artery to renal vein whats the pathway?

Answer 2

segmental artery
interlobar artery 
arcuate artery 
interlobular artery 
afferent arterioles 
Nephrons 
Venules
interlobular vein
arcuate vein 
interlobar vein

Question 3

What is a nephron?

Answer 3

functional unit of the kidney
filtration of blood at glomerulus
glomerular capsule
proximal convoluted tubule
loop of henle
distal convoluted tubule
collecting duct

Question 4

Nephron:

what happens in the renal corpuscle?

Answer 4

production of filtrate

Question 5

Nephron:

what happens in the loop of henele?

Answer 5

further reabsorption of water and both sodium and chloride ions

Question 6

Nephron:

what happens in the papillary duct?

Answer 6

delivery of urine to minor calyx

Question 7

Nephron:

what happens in the connecting tubules and collecting duct?

Answer 7

variable reabsorption of water and reabsorbtion of secretion of Na K H and bicarbonate ions

Question 8

Nephron:

what happens in the distal convoluted tubule?

Answer 8

secretion of ions, acids, drugs, toxins

variable reabsorption of water Na and Ca

Under hormone control

Question 9

Function of the nephron?

Answer 9

filtration : pressure –> fluids, solutes, small molecules

reabsorption : from nephron –> return back to blood

secretion : from blood to nephron

Question 10

What is a glomerulus?

Answer 10

vascular structure including specialized capillary network surrounded by the glomerular capsule of the nephron

directs blood into the filtration strucutes of the nephron