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Functions of the urinary system

-Elimination?

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Eliminates urine and toxic metabolites from the blood

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Functions of the urinary system

-Conservation?

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Conserves salts, glucose, proteins, and water

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Functions of the urinary system

-Regulation?

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Regulates blood pressure, hemodynamics, and acid-base balance

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Functions of the urinary system

-Endocrine?

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Produces vitamin D, renin, erythropoietin, and prostaglandins (hormonal control of other tissues/organs)

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Kidney blood supply

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  • As a blood filtering organ, the kidney’s blood supply is critical to its function
  • Supplied by renal arteries which branch directly from the aorta
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Blood supply of the kidney

-Renal artery splits off into?

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-Renal a–>segmental (lobar) a–>interlobar a–>arcuate a–>interlobular a (cortical radial a)–>afferent arteriole–>glomerulus capillary–>efferent a–>peritubular capillary/vasa recta–>interlobular v–>arcuate vein–>interlobar vein–>renal vein

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What is significant about segmental arteries?

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Segmental arteries are end arteries

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The nephron

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Functional unit of the kidney

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The nephron-functional unit of the kidney

  • Parts are modified for specific physiological functions
    - Renal corpuscle function?
    - Tubular portion function?
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  • Renal corpuscle filters fluid from blood

- Tubular portion modifies filtrate into urine

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Afferent arteriole leads into?

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Glomerulus-a capillary bed which leads to the efferent arteriole

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Types of nephrons?

-The type depends on?

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  • Two types of nephrons-cortical (short) and juxtamedullary (long)
  • Depends on location of their Henle loop
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Types of nephrons

-Cortical (short)-Two types?

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  • superficial

- midcortical

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Whole renal pathway summary on slides 12 and 13

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look at them

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Renal corpuscle

-Glomerulus?

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Tuft of fenestrated capillaries

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Renal corpuscle

-Glomerulus is surrounded by?

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-The glomerulus is surrounded by urinary (Bowman’s) capsule

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Renal corpuscle

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  • Capillaries invaginate into Bowman’s capsule
  • Capillaries are in contact with the visceral layer (podocytes)
  • Parietal layer is simple squamous epithelium
  • Separate by the urinary space
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Mesangial cells

-What are they?

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  • Supporting cells

- Modified smooth muscle

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Mesangial cells

-Functions?

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  • Contractile
  • Supportive
  • Phagocytic
  • Secretory
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Mesangial cells

-Functions-contractile?

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-Reduce/increase blood flow through capillaries

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Mesangial cells

-Functions-supportive?

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Supportive in area where the visceral layer of the renal corpuscle is absent

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Mesangial cells

-Functions-Phagocytic?

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Resorption and maintenance of the basal lamina

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Mesangial cells

-Functions-secretory?

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Secrete prostaglandins and endothelins (induce constriction of afferent and efferent arterioles)

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Glomerular filtration barrier

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  • Fluid from capillaries leaks into the urinary space through a complex filtration barrier
  • Fenestrated capillary endothelium
  • Basal lamina (basement membrane)
  • Podocytes of the visceral layer of Bowman’s capsule
  • High polyanionic charge on some components of both basal lamina and surface of podocyte processes
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Glomerular capillaries

-Characteristics?

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  • Fenestrated
  • Large pores not covered by a diaphragm
  • Permeable to water, urea, glucose, and small proteins
  • Barrier only to formed elements in blood and large maccromolecules
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Basal lamina | -Lamina rarae contains:
- Type 4 collagen - Laminin - Fibronectin - Negatively charged proteoglycans
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Pedicels and filtration slits - Pedicels? - Filtration slits? - Covered by?
- Each pedicel has a glycocalyx of negatively charged podocalyxin - Separated by clefts-filtration slits - Covered by a porous slit diaphragm
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Filtration slit diaphragm | -contains what protein? what does this protein do?
- Diaphragm contains the protein nephrin | - Nephrin seems to halt passage of molecules through the fenestrations and basal lamina
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Mutations in gene for nephrin are associated with what disease?
Congenital nephrotic syndrome
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Filtration process
- Blood enters glomerulus via afferent arteriole - Arteriole pressure forces fluid through fenestrae of capillary endothelium - Large molecules are trapped by the basal lamina - Negatively charged molecules are stopped by the basal lamina and podocytes - Fluid passes through pores in slit diaphragm to enter the urinary space
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Proximal convoluted tubule
- Site of "bulk operations", it begins at urinary pole - Lined by cuboidal/low columnar epithelium - Microvilli and well-defined brush border
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Proximal tubule | -Bulk operations?
- Extensive reabsorption of glomerular filtrate - Na (active transport), Cl (passive diffusion), water (aquaporin-1) (small transmembrane channel) - Reduction in fluid volume - Proteins and small peptides are endocytosed in PCT
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Loop of henle concentration
Concentration of the interstitium
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Loop of Henle function?
To assist in forming hypertonic urine by establishing an osmotic gradient in the interstitial fluid of the medulla
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Loop of Henle structure?
- U-shaped epithelial tube | - Consists of a thick (PCT) and thin descending limb and a thick and thin descending limb
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Loop of Henle structure | -Difference between thick and thin portions in both the ascending and descending limbs?
Epithelial change - Thick-cuboidal - Thin-squamous
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Thin ascending is really only found in what type of nephron?
Juxtamedullary nephrons
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Loop of Henle: descending portion
- Permeable to both water and salt - As filtrate (isotonic) in the lumen passes deeper into the medulla, it loses water to the interstitium - Filtrate becomes more hypertonic - Filtrate volume also decreases with loss of water
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Loop of Henle: Ascending portion
- Plays a more active role in setting up the osmotic gradient required to make the interstitium hypertonic - ***Contains an Na/K/Cl pump-symporter*** - Constantly pumps these ions from the filtrate into the interstitium
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Loop of Henle: Ascending portion cont.
- ***Impermeable to water (water cannot follow salt into the interstitium)*** - Loss of salt, but not water, causes the filtrate in Loop of Henle to become isotonic or even hypotonic - Filtrate ascends toward the DCT in the cortex
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Distal convoluted tubule - Lined by? - Compared to proximal convolute tubule?
- Lined by low cuboidal epithelium | - Fewer microvilli in comparison to PCT (lumen looks larger)
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Distal convoluted tubule | -2 cell types?
- Principal cells | - Intercalated cells
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Distal convoluted tubule | -Principal cells-function?
Resorb Na and secrete K
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Distal convoluted tubule | -Intercalated cells-function?
Secrete H+ or HCO3-
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Macula Densa
- Modified segment at transition between the thick ascending loop of Henle and the DCT wall - Sensitive to Cl- ion or NaCl content of tubular fluid - Produces molecular signals promoting constriction of afferent arteriole - Regulate the rate of glomerular filtration (GFR)
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Juxtaglomerular apparatus
- Involved in maintaining blood pressure and volume through production of renin - Juxtaglomerular cells of afferent arteriole (produce renin) - Extraglomerular mesangial cells (lacis, polkissen) - Macula densa of Loop of Henle/DCT transition
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Juxtaglomerular apparatus | -Macula densa function?
-Macula densa acts as a sensor, regulating juxtaglomerular function by monitoring Na+ and Cl- levels in the DCT
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Juxtaglomerular apparatus | -Decrease in blood volume/pressure elicits what reaction by JG cells?
JG cells secrete renin-->angiotensinogen-->active angiotensin-->aldosterone
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Aldosterone is secreted by?
Suprarenal glands
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Angiotensinogen-->?
- Angiotensinogen converted to angiotensin I by renin - Angiotensin I converted to ang II by ACE - Ang II stimulates aldosterone production by suprarenal glands - Reabsorption of Na and water by DCT, CT, and CD
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Treatment of chronic hypertension?
ACE inhibitor
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DCT and aldosterone
- Crucial to acid-base balance and urine concentration - Aldosterone (adrenal cortex) cause DCT cells to resorb remaining Na - Pump H+ and K+ ions into lumen - Control body's extracellular K+ level and urine acidity
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- Atrial Natriuretic factor | - secreted by?
Atrial myocytes
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Atrial Natriuretic factor | -Function?
- Increases Na (natriuresis) and water (diuresis) EXCRETION | - Opposes action of aldosterone, inhibits the release of ADH
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Urodilatin | -Secreted by?
DCT and CD cells
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Urodilatin | -Function?
-Inhibits NaCl and water reabsorption by the medullary part of the collecting ducts
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Collecting tubules | -Function?
Receive isotonic urine from DCT
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Collecting ducts | -Function?
- Receive isotonic urine from collecting tubules | - Play important role in final concentration of urine (interstitium and vasa recta)
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Collecting ducts | -pathway?
- Leave cortex in medullary rays and enter medulla | - Collecting ducts open at papilla into minor calyx
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Collecting ducts | -Epithelium responsive to?
ADH
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ADH is released by?
Neurohypophysis
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Collecting ducts | -How are they affected by presence of ADH?
Water is lost from collecting ducts-->hypertonic urine
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Collecting ducts | -How are they affected by absence of ADH?
Ducts remain impermeable to water-->iso-/hypotonic urine
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Pathway of urine in kidney?
Minor calyces-->major calyces-->renal pelvis-->ureter
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Urothelium | -Histology?
- Stratified - Surface layer of umbrella cells linked by desmosomes and tight junctions - Possibly impermeable to water and salt - Forms osmotic barrier
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Functions of the urinary system?
- Elimination - Conservation - Regulation - Endocrine

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