Physiology of Thirst and Fluid Balance and it's Disorders Flashcards
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Thirst and fluid balance - Physiology
- Regulation of thirst and fluid balance
- “…. homeostasis”
- Featured hormone is … also known as …
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- Regulation of thirst and fluid balance
- “water homeostasis”
- Featured hormone is Anti-diuretic hormone (ADH) also known as Arginine vasopressin (AVP)
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Thirst and fluid balance - Pathophysiology
- poly… and poly… (DI)
- Hypo… (syndrome of inappropriate ADH secretion (SIADH)
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- polyuria and polydispia (DI)
- Hyponatraemia (syndrome of inappropriate ADH secretion (SIADH)
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Physiology of water homeostasis: Importance
- Regulation of water balance ensures plasma … (and extracellular fluid … )remains stable
- Narrow range of plasma … (what is this?)
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- Regulation of water balance ensures plasma osmolality (and extracellular fluid osmalality) remains stable
- Narrow range of plasma osmolality - 285-295mosmol/kg
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Physiology of water homeostasis - 3 key determinants - what are they?
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ADH
- osmotically stimulated secretion
- acts on renal tubule to allow changes in water excretion
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Kidney
- wide variation in urine output (0.5-20L/day)
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Thirst
- osmoregulated
- stimulates fluid intake
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ADH is one of the 3 key determinants in water homeostasis. What does it do?
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- osmotically stimulated secretion
- acts on renal tubule to allow changes in water excretion
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The kidney is one of the 3 key determinants in water homeostasis. What is it’s urine output like?
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- a wide variation in urine output (0.5-20L/day)
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Thirst is one of the 3 key determinants in water homeostasis. How is it regulated and stimulated?
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- osmoregulated
- stimulates fluid intake
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Osmoreceptors
- they are groups of specialised cells which detect changes in plasma … (Especially …)
- they are located in the … wall of the … ventricle
- … in the blood-brain barrier allow circulating solutes (osmoles) to influence brain osmoreceptors
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- they are groups of specialised cells which detect changes in plasma osmolality (Especially sodium)
- they are located in the anterior wall of the 3rd ventricle
- fenestrations in the blood-brain barrier allow circulatig solutes (osmoles) to influence brain osmoreceptors
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- How do osmoreceptor cells alter their volume? (in response to changes in plasma osmolality?)
- What does this initiate? what is synthesised? what happens as a result?
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- by a transmembrane flux of water in response to changes in plasma osmolality
- This initiates neuronal impulses that are transmitted to the hypothalamus to synthesise ADH, and to the cerebral cortex to register thirst
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Anti-diuretic hormone (ADH)
- water … hormone
- human form is what?
- like oxytocin - it is a …peptide
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- water conserving hormone
- human form is arginine vasopressin (AVP)
- like oxytocin - it is a Nonapeptide (9 AA peptide)
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- Where is vasopressin synthesised?
- once synthesised, secretory granules migrate down where?
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- in neurons in supraoptic and paraventricular nuclei of the hypothalamus
- secretory granules migrate down axons to posterior pituitary - where AVP is released
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Where is vasopressin released?
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Posterior pituitary
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ADH action in the kidney
- ADH action mediated via … receptors
- ADH sensitive water channel (…) normally stored in cytoplasmic …, moves to & … with the luminal membrane
- … water permeability of renal collecting tubules, promoting water …
- When ADH cleared - water channels removed from the luminal surface (…) and returned to cytoplasm
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- ADH action mediated via V2 receptors
- ADH sensitive water channel (aquaporin) normally stored in cytoplasmic vesicles, moves to & fuses with the luminal membrane
- Increases water permeability of renal collecting tubules, promoting water reabsorption
- When ADH cleared - water channels removed from the luminal surface (endocytosis) and returned to cytoplasm
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Osmoregulation: AVP and the kidney/Thirst
- AVP and the kidney:
- Low plasma osmolality
- AVP is …
- urine is …
- … urine output
- Thirst?
- High plasma osmolality
- AVP secretion is …
- urine is …
- … urine output
- Thirst?
- Low plasma osmolality
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- AVP and the kidney:
- Low plasma osmolality
- AVP is Undetectable
- urine is dilute
- high urine output
- no thirst
- High plasma osmolality
- AVP secretion is high
- urine is concentrated
- low urine output
- yes - increased thirst sensation - but drinking immediately transiently suppresses AVP secretion and thirst - avoids an ‘overshoot’
- Low plasma osmolality
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What relationship is shown here?
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- relationship between plasma AVP and plasma osmolality/urine osmolality
- Left - As plasma osmolality rises, vasopressin rises, thirst triggered
- Right - vasopressin up, osmolality of urine up
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Polyuria and Polydipsia
- Exclude what first?
- Three other main causes are:
- ?
- lack of osmoregulated AVP secretion
- ?
- lack of response of the renal … to AVP
- ?
- psychogenic polydipsia, social/cultural
- ?
- all may be ‘partial’
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- Exclude diabetes mellitus first
- Three other main causes are:
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Cranial (Central) diabetes insipidus
- lack of osmoregulated AVP secretion
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Nephrogenic diabetes insipidus
- lack of response of the renal tubule to AVP
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Primary polydipsia
- psychogenic polydipsia, social/cultural
- all may be ‘partial’
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Cranial (Central) diabetes insipidus