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5.2: Homeostasis Flashcards

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What is excretion?

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The removal of metabolic waste from the body

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What are the main excretory products?

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  • CO2 from respiration
  • Nitrogen-containing compounds such as urea
  • Bile pigments
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What are the excretory organs?

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  1. Lungs
  2. Liver
  3. Kidneys
  4. Skin
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What is excreted out of the lungs and how?

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  • Carbon dioxide from respiring tissues —> bloodstream as hydrogencarbonate ions —> llungs
  • CO2 diffuses into the alveoli to be excreted as you breathe out
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What is excreted out of the liver and how?

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  • Some substances produced from metabolic roles will be passed into bile for excretion
  • Involved in converting excess amino acids into urea (broken down by deammination)
  • Nitrogen containing part of molecule is combined in CO2 to make urea
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What is excreted out of the kidneys and how?

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  • Urea passed into the bloodstream to the kidney
  • Transported in solutions: dissolved in plasma
  • Removed from blood to be part of urine
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What is excreted out of the skin and why?

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  • Sweat contains salts, urea, water, uric acid & ammonia
  • Losing this maintains body temperature and water potential of the blood
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Why is excretion important?

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Some products are toxic and may interfere with cell processes, altering the pH
This means normal metabolism is prevented
Other products may act as inhibitors

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What is deammination and why does it occur?

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Amino acid + oxygen —> keto acid + ammonia

  • The body cannot store excess amino acids
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What is the formation of urea and why does it occur?

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Ammonia + carbon dioxide —> urea + water

  • Urea is less toxic than ammonia
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What does the liver do?

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Responsible for ensuring that everything in the blood is at the correct concentration (products of digestion, toxins and vitamins)

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What is the hepatic artery?

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  • Oxygenated blood from the heart travels towards the liver
  • Supplies the oxygen that is essential for aerobic respiration
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What is the hepatic portal vein?

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Deoxygenated blood enters the liver from the digestive system

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What is the deoxygenated blood like in the hepatic portal vein?

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  • Blood is rich in the products of digestion
  • Concentration are uncontrolled
  • Important that substances do not continue to circulate around the body before their concentrations are adjusted
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What is the structure of the liver?

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  • Liver is divided into lobes
  • Lobes are further divided into lobules
  • Cells, blood vessels and chambers are arranged to ensure the greatest possible contact between the blood and the liver cell
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What are interlobular vessels?

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Smaller vessels that are split from hepatic artery and hepatic portal vein when they enter the liver

  • They run parallel to the lobules
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What are sinusoids?

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Special chamber lined with liver cells where the mixed blood from the two vessels are passed through

  • Blood concentrations is modified and regulated when it reaches the end of the sinusoid
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What are liver cells?

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  • Relatively unspecialised
  • Simple cubiodal shape with many microvilli on their surface
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What are the metabolic functions of liver cells?

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  • Protein synthesis
  • Transformation
  • Storage of carbohydrates
  • Synthesis of cholesterol
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What is the role of the kidney?

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Helps make urine and remove urea

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What makes up the nephron?

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  • Glomerulus
  • Bowman’s capsule
  • Proximal convulated tubule
  • Loop of Henle
  • Distal convulated tubule
  • Collecting duct
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Where does ultrafiltration occur?

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Glomerulus and bowman’s capsule

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What are the barriers in ultrafiltration?

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  1. Gaps between the cells of the endothelium of the capillary - also contain fenestrations
  2. Basement membrane - consists of a mesh of collagen fibres and glycoproteins
  3. Epithelial cells of the bowman’s capsule - have podocytes which have finger like projections
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What filtrate can pass through the bowman’s capsule?

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Glucose
H2O
Urea
Salt
Amino acids
Vitamins
Hormones

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What is the mechanism of reabsorption in the proximated convulated tubule

5 steps

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  1. Sodium ions are actively pumped out of the cells lining the tubule
  2. Concentration of sodium ions in cell cytoplasm decreases, creating a concentration gradient
  3. Sodium ions diffuse into the cell through a cotransport protien - carrying glucose or an amino acid at the same time
  4. Water moves into the cell by osmosis
  5. Glucose/ amino acids diffuse into the blood
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What happens at the distal convulated tubule?

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Reabsorption selective to body needs

  • Balance the H2O, salt, needs and pH of the blood
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What are osmoregulators?

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Specialised cells in hypothalamus and monitor the water potential of the blood

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What are neurosecretory cells

  • Connected to anterior pituritary
  • Connected to posterior pituritary
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  • Produce releasing and release-inhibiting hormones
  • Produce ADH and oxytocin
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What happens if there is low water potential in the body?

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  • Osmoreceptor loses water by osmosis and shrink
  • Stimulates neurosecretory cells in the hypothalamus
  • Produce and release ADH
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What is ADH?

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Anti dieretic hormone
Produced in hypothalamus and stored in the pituritary gland

  • It travels in the blood to the kidney
  • It signals for more aquaporins to be deposited onto wall of collecting duct
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What is the mechanism for ADH?

4 steps

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  1. ADH binds to receptor on tubule wall
  2. Triggers cAMP formation
  3. cAMP signals vesicles with aquaporins to move and fuse with plasma membrane
  4. Insert aquaporins on inner wall which increases permeability to H2O which increases water reabsorption
32
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What can urine be tested for?

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  • Glucose - diagnosis of diabetes
  • Recreational drugs
  • Anabolic steroids - to detect improper use in sporting competiton
33
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What do anabolic steriods do?

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Increase protein synthesis within cells
This results in the build up of cell tissuse

34
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What are the steps for urine drug tests for anabolic steriods?

4 steps

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  1. Carry out immunoassay, where monoclonal antibodies bind to a substance such as a drug to indicate whether a urine sample contains them
  2. Vaporise the urine sample with a known solvent
  3. Separate the components of the sample using gas chromatography
  4. Use mass spectrometry to identify the molecular structures in the sample
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Why does a pregnancy test work?

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Humana chrorionic gonadotrophin (hCG) is produced once a human embryo is implanted in the uterine lining

  • Monoclonal antibodies bind to hCG in urine so they are used
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How does a pregancy test work?

5 steps

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  1. Urine poured onto test stick
  2. hCG bind to mobile antibodies attached to a blue head
  3. Mobile antibodies move down test stick
  4. If hCG is present, it bind to fixed antibodies holding head in place, a blue line forms
  5. Mobile antibodies with no hCG attached bind to another fixed site to show the test works

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