PHYS 1 regulation of body fluid osmolality: Regulation of water balance Flashcards
what is needed to concentrate urine?
loop of henle’s role?
what causes collecting duct permeability?
Ascending limb maintains what difference/how much of a difference?
max osmolality of interstitium?
normal plasma osmo at tip of loop?
fluid leaving loop is what?

countercurrent multiplier (review)

countercurrent 1st step.
tubular fluid entering?
osmolality of interstitium and other body fluids?

Countercurrent 2nd step
what happens?
medullary interstitium?
water movement?

countercurrent 3rd step.
what happens?
continues until?
what effect does this have on tubular fluid?
equillibrium at the 3rd step is what?

countercurrent 4th step
what happens?
osmolality at different parts of loop.
(leaving, entering, through loop)

countercurrent 5th step
what happens?
additional flow of fluid from proximal tubule causes what?

countercurrent step 7
what happens
continues until?
interstitial fluid relationship with descending limb?
what happens in ascending limb?

importance of the vasa recta?
what does it do?
permeable to?
vasa recta maintain what via?
increased?
decreased?

urea recycling
what is mainly impermeable?
where is it permeable?
what allows the movement?
recycling?

what does the countercurrent exchange help establish?

what are the main causes of the medullary interstitial osmotic gradient?

ADH
synthesized where?
stimulated by what?
what is stimulated causing what?
how quick is the action?

what detects changes in osmolality?
how much can cause ADH release?
what else is stimulated?
which pathway is activated first?

Late distal tubule and collecting duct cell types?
First type
reabsorb/secrete what? via?
H2O? via? what stims? without it?
second type
reabsorb? secrete? via?
important for? what acts on the cell?
