(final) Lecture 13 (5/23/16) PT. 1 Flashcards
What does an antidiuretic hormone (ADH) do?
increases permeability of distal convoluted tubule and collecting duct to water
Secretion of ADH causes what?
retention of water in the body
more concentrated urine
If you reabsorb less water into your kidney, then that means that more of that water will stay in your urine. This means your urine…
will be more diluted (watery)
will have greater volume
Diuresis:
increased urination
Since the ADH increases permeability to water, what happens to the water?
more water can escape out of it into the increasing concentration gradient
The increasing concentration gradient was set up by what?
Loop of Henle
Inhibition of ADH does what?
decreases permeability of collecting tubule to water
With inhibition of ADH, what happens to the water?
less water can escape out of it into the increasing concentration gradient
The nervous system is predominantly electrical or chemical?
electrical
*though neurotransmitters are chemicals that diffuse between neurons
Endocrine structures communicate by secreting chemicals into what?
the circulatory system
Animals have specialized tissues that secrete regulatory molecules into…
interstitial tissue
blood
These specialized tissues that secrete regulatory molecules act on what?
target cells
The tissues that produce these specialized molecules are…..
And the messenger molecules are….
endocrine glands
hormones
By interaction of a hormone molecule with particular receptor molecules, what happens?
the initiation (in the target cell) of a series of steps that influence one or more aspects of the physiology or metabolism of the target cell
What kind of cells are affected by a certain hormone?
only cells that contain receptors specific for the hormone
target cells or target organs