Renal

Question 1

nephron

Answer 1

tubes made up of a single lining of cells

parts: Bowman’s capsule, PCT, loop on Henle, TAL, DCT, collecting duct

Question 2

glomerulus

Answer 2

blood vessel network found inside Bowman’s capsule

Question 3

renal corpusol

Answer 3

Bowman’s capsule and glomerulus together

Question 4

Afferent arteriol

Answer 4

Goes into Bowman’s capsule

Question 5

Efferent Arteriol

Answer 5

Goes out of Bowman’s capsule

Question 6

JG cells

Answer 6

smooth muscle cells of Afferent Arteriole

Question 7

macula densa cells

Answer 7

modified JG cells

Question 8

secondary polysathemia

Answer 8

JG cells sense low oxygen in blood and produce more red blood cells (chemoreceptors)
JG cells sense low blood pressure (baroreceptor cells)

Question 9

glomerular fitration

Answer 9

only place in kidney (solutes out of glomerulus into Bowman’s space)

Question 10

tubular reabsorption

Answer 10

movement of fluids from tube to blood vessel

Question 11

tubular secretion

Answer 11

taking something from blood into tube

Question 12

secretion

Answer 12

moving something across an epithelial membrane

Question 13

excretion

Answer 13

removing something from the body

Question 14

Hemodialysis

Answer 14

mechanism to make an artificial kidney

Question 15

3 regions of loop of Henle

Answer 15

descending limb, Henle’s loop, ascending limb