Exam 3 - Lecture 37 (Tubular Reabsorption) Flashcards
What is reabsorption?
Pulling things from the nephron into the bloodstream
How does blood get from the nephron back to the bloodstream?
Through peritubular capillaries
What is the opposite of reabsorption?
Secretion
What is passive transport?
Movement across membrane by random motion down electrochemical gradient without energy (diffusion and facilitated diffusion)
What is active transport?
Movement across membrane via carrier protein against electrochemical gradient using energy (primary active and secondary active)
What is the luminal membrane?
Side of cell that separates tubular cell from tubular fluid
What is the basolateral membrane?
Side of cell that separates cell from peritubular interstitium (blood)
What is transepithelial potential difference?
Potential difference between tubular lumen and peritubular interstitium (blood).
- Changes bt tubular sections and contributes to electrochemical gradient
What is the transcellular route?
Reabs. thru cytoplasm of tubular cells.
What route does passive transport take?
Transcellular and paracellular
What route does active transport take?
Transcellular only
What % of reabsorption happens thru the transcellular route?
80-90%
What is the paracellular route?
Reabs. between tubular cells across tight junctions
What is Na+K+ATPase critical for?
Tubular reabsorption
Where is Na+K+ATPase located?
Basolateral membrane of all tubular epithelia
What is the role of Na+K+ATPase?
Moves 3 Na+ out of the cell and 2 K+ in (to decrease [Na+] inside cell)
What type of transporter is Na+K+ATPase?
basolateral antiporter
What type of transport does Na+K+ATPase do?
active