Kidney Flashcards
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cortex of the kidney
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- outer layer
- filters the blood
- dense capillary network- carries blood from renal artery to nephrons
2
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medulla of kidney
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- lighter
- contains tubules of the nephrons
- forms the pyramids + collecting duct of the kidney
3
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pelvis
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- central chamber
- urine collects before passing out down the ureter
4
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bowman’s capsule
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- cup-shaped structure
- contains glomerulus (tangle of capillaries)
- more blood goes into glomerulus than leaves bc of ultrafiltration.
5
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Proximal convoluted tubule
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- first, coiled region of the tubule after the bowman’s capsule
- in cortex
- substances needed by body are reabsorbed
6
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Loop of Henle
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- long loop of tubule
- creates region with high solute conc in TF in medulla.
- the descending loop runs down from cortex through the medulla to bend at the bottom of the loop
- ascending limb travels back up through the medulla to the cortex.
7
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distal convoluted tubule
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- second twisted tubule
- fine tuning of water balance
- permeability of the walls to water sensitive to ADH in the blood
- ion balance and blood pH regulation .
8
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collecting duct
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- urine passes down the CD through the medulla to the pelvis.
- more fine tuning of water balance (sensitive to ADH)
9
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describe ultrafiltration
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- removal of nitrogenous waste
- osmoregulation in the blood
- glomerulus is supplied with blood from the wide afferent arteriole from the renal artery
- blood leaves through the narrower efferent arteriole
- high pressure in capillaries of glomerulus.
- blood is forced out of capillary wall
- fluid passes through basement membrane
- most of fluid can pass through
- blood cells and proteins with an RAM bigger than 69000 cannot pass due to their size.
- podocytes (wall of BC) act as an additional filter
- have extensions : pedicels.
- pedicels wrap around capillaries forming slits
- slits ensure any large cells, platelets or plasma proteins that made it past the epithelial cells/BM don’t get into the tubule
10
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what is the glomerular filtration rate
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volume of blood filtered through the kidneys in a given time
11
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events in the PCT
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- selective reabsorption
- of glucose and amino acids
- by active transport via co-transporter
- water follows via osmosis down CG
- conc of ions/urea inc
- walls PCT lined with epithelium
- epithelium have microvilli
- large SA for uptake
12
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events in the loop of henle
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- filtrate entering DL is isotonic with the blood,
- water leaves by osmosis into conc tissue of medulla
- water into blood of capillaries down CG
- CG maintained along the DL
- concentrated solution at hairpin (hypertonic to blood)
- Bottom of AL perm to NaCl which diffuse out
- equilibrium is reached
- Na+ is actively pumped out
- Cl- follow down ECG
- walls of AL imperm to water
- water can’t follow by osmosis
- high conc of ions in TF of medulla
- filtrate is dilute and hypotonic to the blood
13
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events in DCT
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- Perm of walls varies with ADH levels
- walls have a lot of mitochondria supplying ATP for AT
- Na+ AT if body lacks salt
- Cl- follow down ECG
- further concentrates the medulla
- water can osmote out
- conc the urine
- blood pH balanced
14
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events in the CD
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- perm of CD controlled by ADH levels
- if ADH present water osmotes out into TF of renal medulla
- urine is more conc
- conc of Na in TF of medulla increases maintaining cg
- urine hypertonic to blood when needed to conserve water.
15
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what is fenestration
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- gaps in capillary endothelial
- where water can be forced out .
