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Lecture 31: URINE COMPOSITION, FUNCTIONS OF KIDNEY, BASIC NEPHRON PROCESSES Flashcards

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What is found in normal urine?

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Water, creatinine, urea, uric acid, H+, NH3, Na+, K+, drugs, toxins

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How much water is in urine?

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1.5L/day

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What percentage of urine is water?

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95-98%

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How does normal urine look?

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Clear, light or dark amber

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what does normal urine taste like?

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Acidic (pH 5-6), not sweet

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What does the pH of urine depend on?

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Diet

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What is the pH of the urine of vegetarians?

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Up to 7.2

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What is the pH of the urine of meat eaters?

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4.8

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What is the smell of normal urine?

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There is no smell

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What may be found in pathological urine?

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Glucose, protein, blood (erythrocytes), haemoglobin, leukocytes and bacteria

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What is it called when there is haemoglobin in urine?

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Haemoglobinuria

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What is it a sign of when there is bacteria in urine?

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Infection

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What does pathological urine look like?

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golden, red, brown, blue

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What does pathological urine taste like?

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Sweet = diabetes mellitus

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What may pathological urine smell like?

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Fruits or rotten

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What may it mean when urine smells like fruit?

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ketosis (fasting), diabetes, chronic alcohol abuse

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What may it mean when urine smells rotten?

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Infection (bacteria), tumor

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What is measured in urinalysis?

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Blood, specific gravity, glucose, pH and protein

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Where is blood found?

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Not urine or plasma

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What may blood in the urine indicate?

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Haematuria, urinary tract infection, damage to filtration barrier

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What does specific gravity measure?

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Osmolarity

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What is the specific gravity of plasma?

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285-300 mOsmol/L

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What is the specific gravity of urine?

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50-1335 mOsmol/L

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What may it mean when specific gravity isn’t within the range?

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Polyuria, diabetes mellitus, diabetes inspires (concussion)

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Where is glucose found?
In plasma but not urine
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What may it mean when there is glucose in the urine?
Glucosuria, diabetes mellitus
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Where is protein found?
In plasma but not urine
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What may it mean when there is protein in the urine?
Proteinuria, glomerulonephritis, damage to filtration barrier
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What is the pH of plasma?
7.4
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What is the pH of urine?
4.5-8
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What may it mean when the pH of urine has changed?
Acidosis, alkalosis, asthma, anxiety disorder
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What are the functions of the kidney?
- filters blood - hormone production (erythropoietin) - metabolism - gluconeogenesis (when fasting) - pH regulation - excretion of drugs, endogenous metabolites and toxins - reabsorption ofnutrients - salt/ion homeostasis - water homeostasis
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What does the kidney detect?
Low oxygen levels
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What does the kidney release?
Erythropoietin
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What does EPO do?
Stimulates the bone marrow to produce more red blood cells
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What may chronic renal failure lead to (EPO)?
Anaemia (low levels of red blood cells/haemoglobin > low oxygen levels)
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Why is potassium important in cells?
Resting membrane potential is based on potassium gradient (inside/outside) of cells
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Why is potassium important in neurons and cardiomyocytes?
Action potentials, rhythm generation in pace maker cells, contractility, signalling
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What does the kidneys do with potassium?
Secrete it as too much can kill
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What can kidney disease/failure lead to (potassium)?
Hyperkalemia (death)
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What is lidocaine?
A commonly used local anaesthetic in a practice or hospital
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What happens with lidocaine?
It is excreted by the kidneys after metabolisation in the liver due to its fat soluble (lipophilic) nature
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What happens with aspirin?
It is already highly water soluble (hydrophilic) and excreted directly by the kidneys
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What happens with lipophilic things?
Metabolised in liver (some excreted in bile) and excreted directly by the kidneys
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What happens with hydrophilic things?
Excreted by the kidneys
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What is the formula for pH?
-log[H+]
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What does it mean when blood pH is above 7.4?
Alkalosis
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What does it mean when blood pH is below 7.4?
Acidosis
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What can vomiting cause?
Loss of acid so blood is more basic (alkalosis)
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What can diarrhoea cause?
Loss of bicarbonate so blood is more acidic (acidosis)
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What is bicarbonate?
The main buffer of the blood neutralising non-volatile acids coming from metabolism, food and drinks, maintaining a blood pH of 7.4
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What is bicarbonate concentration in the blood controlled by?
The lungs (exhalation of carbon dioxide) and kidneys by reabsorption of bicarbonate or secretion of hydrogen ions
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What does filtration do?
Creates a plasma like filtrate of the blood
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What does reabsorption do?
Removes useful solutes from the filtrate and returns them to the blood
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What does secretion do?
Adds additional wastes from the blood to the filtrate
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What determines the way a substance is handled in the kidneys?
The balance between filtering, reabsorption and secretion
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How are many substances filtered?
With a constant rate at the renal corpuscle (glomerulus) with the exception of substances bound to protein
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What needs to happen to some substances?
They need to be partly reabsorbed (Na+/K+) or entirely reabsorbed(glucose) or entirely secreted (many drugs)
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what is the role of the glomerulus?
Filtration
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What is the role of the proximal tubule?
Bulk reabsorption of electrolytes (sodium, potassium), secretion of metabolites, drugs and toxins
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What is the role of the distal tubule?
Fine tuning electrolyte/water reabsorption
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What is the role of the collecting duct?
Fine tuning electrolyte/water reabsorption
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What happens with glucose?
It is reabsorbed only in the proximal tubule
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What happens with potassium?
It is reabsorbed (PCT) or secreted (DCT/ collecting duct) in different parts of the tubule (depends on diet)
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What happens with water?
It is reabsorbed in most parts of the tubule
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What happens with drugs and toxins such as penicillin?
Mostly excreted by active secretion, not filtration
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What happens with big molecules such as albumins?
They are not even filtered

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