Nyrer Flashcards
Main functions of kidneys
Homeostatic role:
– water, salt, acid/base, nutrient balance
Excretion:
– removal of metabolic waste products (e.g. urea, uric acid, ammonia, creatinine)
- removal of foreign chemicals and excretion in the urine
Endocrine function:
– produces hormones involved in erythrogenesis (EPO), calcium metabolism (1,25-dihydroxy Vit. D) and blood pressure/flow regulation (renin)
Gluconeogenesis
Kidney diseases
Various defects
Genetic defects
Regulation defects
Various defects
Chronic kidney disease
Diabetic nephropathy
Toxic chemicals (e.g. ochratoxin)
Obstruction of ureter/urethra
Kidney stones
Infections
Glomerulonephritis
Tumors
Regulation defects
Impaired response to vasopressin (Diabetes Insipidus)
hypoaldosteroidism
Too much renin - renal hypertension
Genetic defects
Defect in Na-K-Cl cotransporter – Barter syndrome
Defect in Na channels – Liddle ́s disease
Defect in AQP2 channels – nephrogenic diabetes insipidus
Polycystic kidney disease – defects in primary cilia
Kidney is also a target for drugs used to treat
High blood pressure
Oedema
Type 2 diabetes
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Nyren er forbundet til arterie og vene
også forbundet til urinblæren via urinlederen
Nephron
Renal copuscle (nyrelegeme)
- Glomerulus + Bowmans kapsel
–>
Proximal tubulus
–>
Loop of Henle
–>
Distal tubulus
–>
Collecting duct
Main elements of nephron function
The nephron forms an ultrafiltrate of the blood plasma and then selectively reabsorbs the tubule fluid and secretes solutes into it
Main renal processes:
Filtration - bulk transport
Absorption - membrane transport processes
Secretion - membrane transport processes
Excretion - filtration + absorption
Filtration
Renal corpuscle (nyrelegeme)
- Glomerulus, Bowman’s capsule and Juxtaglomerular apparatus
Ultrafiltrate føres ud til proximal tubulus og videre ud til collecting duct
Ultrafiltrate
= glomerular filtrate = pre-urine
What molecules do and do not get into the glomerular filtrate
Molecules < 8nm
Water, ions (0.02-0.05 kDa)
Urea (0.06 kDa)
Glukose (0.18 kDa)
Inulin (5.5 kDa)
Myoglobin (17 kDa)
What does not pass through:
- Albumin
- Hemoglobin
- Blood cells
- Protein-bound hormones and minerals
Kidney vascular bed
Important for filtrate formation
- and secretion and absorption and for concentrating mechanism
Renal artery
–> afferent arteriole
–> glomerular capillary network
–> efferent arteriole
–> capillary network surrounding renal tubules
–> renal vein
Blood pressure in the kidney vascular bed
The blood pressure drops as you move through the kidney vascular bed
Starts around 120 mmHg ved renal artery
Falder til ca. 50 mmHg ved glomerular capillaries
Falder til ca. 15 mmHg ved renal vein
Filtration depends on:
Hydrostatic (P) and osmotic (Π) pressures
Net glomerular filtration pressure
= P(GC) - P(BS) - Π(GC)
Favoring filtration:
- glomerular capillary blood pressure (P(GC)) (60 mmHg)
Opposing filtration:
- Fluid pressure in Bowman’s space (P(BS)) (15mmHg)
- Osmotic force due to protein in plasma (Π(GC)) (29mmHg)
Glomerular filtration rate (GFR)
GFR in healthy person is ca. 125 ml/min (which makes about 1/5th of renal plasma flow)
CALCULATE AND REFLECT: 125 ml/min
How much plasma is filtered each day ?
If plasma volume is 3 L, how many times does kidney filter?
How much is filtered each day ? 180 l/day
If plasma volume is 3 L, how many times does kidney filter? 60x day!
Autoregulation
The kidney maintains constant renal blood flow (RBF) and glomerular filtration rate (GFR)
Why is auto regulation important
Ability of kidney to maintain constant RBF and GFR – innate and occurs in isolated kidney or even a nephron
Aim is to hold RBF and GFR about constant
– or serious consequences to the body water and salt balance – i.e. loss in urine
e.g. increased BP (exercise) > if not regulated increased RPF and GFR> increased urine production
Two mechanism:
a)myogenic control – property of the smooth muscle cells in afferent arteriole, e.g. increase in BP like during exercise will first stretch arteriole, which will reflexly constrict to keep RBF and GFR down
b) tubuloglomerular feedback