CVPR Week 7: Water & Sodium Balance Flashcards
Objectives
Question 1
Question 2
Question 3
Basic role of the kidneys
Body fluid composition
How do the kidneys change body fluid composition?
- Ideal environment for cellular function
- water and electrolyte excretion and retention controlled
- Composition of extracellular water and plasma tightly regulated by renal function
Primary processes of the kidneys
5 listed
- Filtration
- Reabsorption
- Secretion
- Excretion
- Endocrine function
What structure in the kidney is responsible for filtration?
Bowman’s Capsule
Glomerulus AKA
Bowman’s Capsule
Bowman’s Capsule AKA
Glomerulus
What function is the glomerulus responsible for?
Filtration
What function is the proximal tubule responsible for?
Reabsorption
What function is responsible for reabsorption in the kidney?
Proximal tubule
What function is responsible for descending water reabsorption and ascending solute reabsorption in the kidney?
Loop of Henle
What function is responsible for regulated solute reabsorption in the kidney?
Distal tubule
What function is responsible for regulated water reabsorption in the kidney?
Collecting duct
What function is the proximal tubule responsible for?
Reabsorption
What function is the Loop of Henle responsible for?
- Water reabsorption (descending)
- Solute reabsorption (ascending)
What function is the distal tubule responsible for?
Regulated solute reabsorption
What function is the collecting duct responsible for?
Regulated water reabsorption
Identify
Types of nephrons
- Superficial nephrons
- Juxtamedullary nephrons
Juxtamedullary nephrons
- 10% of nephrons
- Long loop
Superficial nephrons
- Short loop
- 90% of nephrons
Identify
The filtration process
- Blood is “filtered” as it passes through the glomerular capillaries
- ~20% of plasma entering the glomerulus is filtered into Bowman’s Space and enters the proximal tubules
- Plasma is filtered ~60 times/day to control water, sodium and waste product levels
Blood is filtered as it passes through?
The glomerular capillaries
How much filtrate is Reabsorbed
99% of filtrate is reabsorbed
Reabsorbed filtrate moves into
The peritubular capillaries
How is reabsorption regulated?
By hormones
The importance of urine excretion
important route of excretion for many toxic substances
How is secretion in the kidney mediated?
By transporters
Endocrine function of the kidneys
The kidney is an important site of synthesis for three hormones
Renal hormones
3 listed
- Erythropoietin
- 1, 25-dihydroxy vitamin D3
- Renin
1, 25-dihydroxy vitamin D3 AKA
Calcitriol
Calcitriol AKA
1, 25-dihydroxy vitamin D3
Erythropoietin function
Erythrocyte formation