Lecture 24 Flashcards
Nephrons and collecting ducts perform 3 basic processes:
- glomerular filtration
- tubular reabsorption
- tubular secretion
2 and 3 = both filtration happens once
glomerular filtration:
a portion of the blood plasma is filtered into the kidney
tubular reabsorption:
water & useful substances are reabsorbed into the blood
tubular secretion:
wastes are removed from the blood & secreted into urine
Rate of excretion of any substance =
rate of filtration + secretion - reabsorption
Blood pressure produces
glomerular filtrate
Filtration fraction is
20% of plasma
why? -circulating rate
Filtering capacity enhanced by:
- thinness of membrane & large surface area of glomerular capillaries
- glomerular capillary BP is high due to small size of efferent arteriole
Filtration Membrane: 3 Steps
#1 Stops all cells and platelets - Endothial fenestration stops #2 Stops large plasma proteins - basal lamina stops #3 Stops medium-sized proteins, not small ones - slit membrane stops
NFP is
total pressure that promotes filtration
NFP equation =
GBHP - (CHP + BCOP) = 10mm Hg
Net Filtration Pressure Steps:
- GBHP Glomerular Blood Hydrostatic Pressure = 55mmHg major force
- CHP Capsular Hydrostatic Pressure
- BCOP Blood Colloid Osmotic Pressure
What if the concentration is lower than 55 mmHg?
no filtration
What if the concentration is more than 55 mmHg?
It increased/ more filtration
GFR:
Glomerular Filtration Rate
Amount of filtrate formed in
all renal corpuscles of both kidneys / minute
Homeostasis requires GFR that is
constant
Too high of GFR =
useful substances are lost due to the speed of fluid passage through nephron
Too low of GFR:
sufficient waste products may not be removed from the body
Changes in net filtration pressure does what?
affects GFR by:
- filtration stops if GBHP drops to 45mm Hg
- functions normally with mean arterial pressures 80-180