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What is the first step of urine formation?

A

glomerular filtration

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What passes freely through the filtration barrier of the glomerular space?

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water and low-molecular weight substances

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What does not get filtered by the glomerulus?

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cells
proteins
protein-bound substances

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What kind of proteins are not filtered by the glomerulus?

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albumins and globulins (large proteins)

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Seeing proteins and blood cells in the urine is a sign of what disease?

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glomerular disease

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___ bound to proteins do not get filtered in the glomerulus?

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fats and calcium

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The composition of the glomerular filtrate is almost identical to that of ___.

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plasma

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What is the major force that drives the glomerular filtration?

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pressure in the capillary (Pgc)

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What is the glomerular capillary blood pressure in glomerular filtration?

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60 mmHg

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What are the 2 opposing forces in the glomerular filtration?

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  1. pressure in the Bowman’s space
  2. oncotic pressure
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The pressure in the Bowman’s space pushes ___ the filtration.

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back

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What is the protein in the oncotic pressure that pulls the water back from the Bowman’s space?

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albumin

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What is the pressure in the Bowman’s space equal to?

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15 mmHg

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What is the osmotic force (oncotic pressure) equal to?

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29 mmhg

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What is the net glomerular filtration pressure formula?

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glomerular capillary blood pressure - Bowman’s space pressure - oncotic pressure

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What is the value of net glomerular filtration pressure?

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16 mmHg

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Why is there no oncotic pressure from the Bowman’s space?

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because there are no proteins in the Bowman’s space

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What is glomerular filtration rate?

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the volume of fluid filtered from the glomeruli into Bowman’s space per unit time

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What 3 things regulate the GFR?

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  • net filtration pressure
  • membrane permeability
  • surface area available for filtration
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What is the normal GFR of a 70 kg person?

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180 L/day

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What is the rate of the normal GFR in a 70 kg person?

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125 mL/min

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What is the NB plasma of a person who has a normal GFR of 180L/day?

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3.5 L

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How much plasma is filtered per day at glomeruli in someone who has a GFR of 180 L/day and a plasma volume of 3.5 L?

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51

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How can you decrease GFR? (2)

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  • constrict afferent arterioles
  • dilating efferent arterioles
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How can you increase GFR? (2)
- constrict efferent arterioles - dilate afferent arterioles
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What is filtered load?
total amount of any freely filtered substance per unit time
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What is the formula for filtered load?
GFR x plasma concentration of the substance
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Filtered load ___ amount excreted in the urine = net reabsorption
> (greater than)
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Filtered load _ amount excreted in the urine = net secretion
< (less than)
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Are there many GFR for many different substances?
no, it is unique to a person
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What is filtered load unique to?
each substance in a person's body
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Reabsorption is the movement of substance from the ___ ___ to ___ ___.
tubular lumen peritubular capillary
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What is responsible for bringing oxygen and nutrients to the tubular epithelial cells?
peritubular capillary
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Where do peritubular capillaries receive substances reabsorbed from the tubular lumen?
tubular lumen
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What are the 2 membranes of the tubular epithelial cells?
- basolateral membrane - laminal membrane
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How can reabsorption happen? (2)
paracellularly and transcellular
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A huge amount of water, sodium and glucose is filtered, but most of it is ___.
reabsorbed
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Filtered loads are enormous, generally ___ than the amounts of the substance in the body.
greater
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Reabsorption of waste products is relatively ___.
incomplete
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Reabsorption of most useful plasma components is relatively ___.
incomplete
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Reabsorption of some substances are not ___ while others are highly ___.
regulated
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Reabsorption of what substance are not regulated?
glucose, amino acids
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Reabsorption of what substance are highly regulated?
water, inorganic ions
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What are the 2 mechanisms of reabsorption?
diffusion and mediated transport
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Reabsorption by diffusion happens across what? What do they connect?
tight junctions they connect the tubular epithelial cells
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What is an example of diffusion of reabsorption?
urea reabsorption in the proximal tubule
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Urea is ___ filtered at glomerulus.
freely
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Where does water reabsorption occur?
in the proximal tubule
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Urea concentration in the tubular fluid becomes ___ during reabsorption in the proximal tubule.
higher
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Where does urea diffuse into?
the ISF and peritubular capillaries
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Reabsorption by mediated transport occurs across which cells?
tubular cells
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What does mediated transport of reabsorption require the participation of?
transport proteins
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What is mediated transport usually coupled to?
the reabsorption of sodium
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What moves from the tubular lumen to the tubular epithelial cells?
sodium, glucose, amino acids
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What moves out of the tubular epithelial cells to the peritubular capillary?
sodium
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What drives the movement of sodium, glucose and amino acids from the tubular lumen to the tubular epithelial cell?
low concentrations of sodium
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What are the proteins that helps molecules travel called?
cotransporter
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What is transport maximum?
when the membrane transport proteins become saturated, the tubule can not reabsorb the substance any more.
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What happens to transport maximum in individuals with uncontrolled diabetes mellitus?
it is exceeded
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What is the result of exceeded transport maximum in individuals with diabetes mellitus?
glucose appears in the urine (glucosuria)
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Tubular secretion moves substances from ___ ___ into the ___ ___.
peritubular capillaries tubular lumen
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Tubular secretion is the opposite of ___.
reabsorption
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What is tubular secretion mediated by? (2)
diffusion and transcellular mediated transport
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In tubular secretion, most important substances secreted by the tubules are:
hydrogen ions and potassium
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Tubular secretion is usually coupled to the reabsorption of ___.
sodium
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In order to excrete waste products, the GFR must be very ___.
large
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The filtered volume of water and the filtered loads of all the nonwaste plasma solutes are very ___.
large
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What does the proximal tubules reabsorb?
most of the filtered water and solutes
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What is the proximal tubule a major site of secretion for?
various solutes except K+
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What does Henle's loop reabsorb relatively large quantities of?
major ions (less water)
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The volume of water and masses of solutes reaching the DCT and CD are relatively ___.
small
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What does the DCT/CD determine?
the final amounts of water and masses in the urine
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Where are most homeostatic controls exerted?
DCT/CD
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How does the DCT/CD determine the final amounts of water and masses excreted in the urine?
by adjusting the rates of reabsorption and secretion
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What is clearance?
the volume of plasma from which that substance is completely removed by the kidneys per unit time
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What is the formula for clearance?
mass of S excreted per unit time / plasma concentration of S
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What is the formula for mass of S excreted per unit time?
urine concentration os S x urine volume per unit time
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What can clearance be used to measure/estimate?
glomerular filtration rate
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How is inulin administered?
intravenously
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Where is inulin freely filtered?
glomerulus
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Is inulin reabsorbed, secreted, or metabolized by the tubule?
no
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What is the clearance of inulin equal to?
the volume of plasma originally filtered
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CNin=
GFR
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What is the most accurate marker of GFR?
Cin
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Why is inulin clearance not convinient?
because you have to infuse it
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How do you calculate amount of inulin excreted in the urine?
urine volume x inulin concentration in the urine
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How do you calculate Cin?
amount of inulin excreted in the urine divided by concentration of inulin in plasma
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What is creatinine?
a waste product produced by muscle
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Where is creatinine filtered freely?
glomerulus
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Is creatinine reabsorbed?
no
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Where is creatinine secreted in small amounts?
tubule
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What is creatine clearance used as a clinical marker for?
GFR
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What is the formula for creatinine clearance?
urine concentration of creatinine (Ucr) multiplied by urine volume divided by plasma concentration of creatinine (Pcr)
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Clearance of a substance > GFR It is ___ at the tubule
secreted
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Clearance of a substance < GFR It is ___ at the tubule
reabsorbed
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What is an example of clearance > GFR (secretion)?
para-amino-hippurate marker of renal plasma flow

PHGY-210 (36 decks)

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