Histology 1

Question 1

What cells make up the bowmans capsule?

Answer 1

Simple squamous cells

Question 2

Urinary pole?

Answer 2

Where urinary tubule begins

Question 3

The two layers that separate the blood from the glomerular filtrate?

Answer 3

Capillary endothelium and podocytes (specialised epithelium)

basal lamina between these layers and is made of GAG

Question 4

Lining of the thin limb of loop of henle?

Answer 4

Thin, simple squamous lining (nuclei protrude)

Thick limb = transitions to simple cuboidal epithelial cells (mitochondria)

Question 5

Blood vessels supplying the medulla?

Answer 5

Vasa recta

Question 6

Lining of the collecting ducts?

Answer 6

Simple columnar epithelium

Question 7

Ducts of bellini?

Answer 7

Collecting ducts

Question 8

Components of the juxtaglomerular apparatus?

Answer 8

The macula densa
The juxtaglomerular cells
The extraglomerular mesangial cells (lacis cells)

Question 9

Modified smooth muscle cells in the wall of the afferent arteriole. These cells contain/secrete renin

Answer 9

Juxtaglomerular cells

Question 10

What are the juxtaglomerular cells and what do they secrete?

Answer 10

They are modified smooth muscle cells in the wall of the afferent arteriole
They contain/secrete cells

Question 11

What lines the conducting parts of the urinary tract?

Answer 11

Transitional epithelium/ urothelium

Question 12

Lining of distal convoluted tubule

Answer 12

SImple cuboidal

Question 13

How can you tell the difference between proximal and distal convoluted tubule epithelium?

Answer 13

Proximal have brush border and microvilli

Distal don’t