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Renal - Lecture 2 Flashcards

1
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What is the first step of urine formation?

A

glomerular filtration

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2
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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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3
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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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4
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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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5
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Seeing proteins and blood cells in the urine is a sign of what disease?

A

glomerular disease

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6
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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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7
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The composition of the glomerular filtrate is almost identical to that of ___.

A

plasma

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8
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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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9
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What is the glomerular capillary blood pressure in glomerular filtration?

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60 mmHg

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10
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What are the 2 opposing forces in the glomerular filtration?

A
  1. pressure in the Bowman’s space
  2. oncotic pressure
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11
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The pressure in the Bowman’s space pushes ___ the filtration.

A

back

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12
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What is the protein in the oncotic pressure that pulls the water back from the Bowman’s space?

A

albumin

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13
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What is the pressure in the Bowman’s space equal to?

A

15 mmHg

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14
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What is the osmotic force (oncotic pressure) equal to?

A

29 mmhg

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15
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What is the net glomerular filtration pressure formula?

A

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

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16
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What is the value of net glomerular filtration pressure?

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16 mmHg

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17
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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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18
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What is glomerular filtration rate?

A

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

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19
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What 3 things regulate the GFR?

A
  • net filtration pressure
  • membrane permeability
  • surface area available for filtration
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20
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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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21
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What is the rate of the normal GFR in a 70 kg person?

A

125 mL/min

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22
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What is the NB plasma of a person who has a normal GFR of 180L/day?

A

3.5 L

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23
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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?

A

51

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24
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How can you decrease GFR? (2)

A
  • constrict afferent arterioles
  • dilating efferent arterioles
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25
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How can you increase GFR? (2)

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  • constrict efferent arterioles
  • dilate afferent arterioles
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26
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What is filtered load?

A

total amount of any freely filtered substance per unit time

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27
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What is the formula for filtered load?

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GFR x plasma concentration of the substance

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28
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Filtered load ___ amount excreted in the urine = net reabsorption

A

> (greater than)

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29
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Filtered load _ amount excreted in the urine = net secretion

A

< (less than)

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30
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Are there many GFR for many different substances?

A

no, it is unique to a person

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31
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What is filtered load unique to?

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each substance in a person’s body

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32
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Reabsorption is the movement of substance from the ___ ___ to ___ ___.

A

tubular lumen
peritubular capillary

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33
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What is responsible for bringing oxygen and nutrients to the tubular epithelial cells?

A

peritubular capillary

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34
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Where do peritubular capillaries receive substances reabsorbed from the tubular lumen?

A

tubular lumen

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35
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What are the 2 membranes of the tubular epithelial cells?

A
  • basolateral membrane
  • laminal membrane
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36
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How can reabsorption happen? (2)

A

paracellularly and transcellular

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37
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A huge amount of water, sodium and glucose is filtered, but most of it is ___.

A

reabsorbed

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38
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Filtered loads are enormous, generally ___ than the amounts of the substance in the body.

A

greater

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39
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Reabsorption of waste products is relatively ___.

A

incomplete

40
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Reabsorption of most useful plasma components is relatively ___.

A

incomplete

41
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Reabsorption of some substances are not ___ while others are highly ___.

42
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Reabsorption of what substance are not regulated?

A

glucose, amino acids

43
Q

Reabsorption of what substance are highly regulated?

A

water, inorganic ions

44
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What are the 2 mechanisms of reabsorption?

A

diffusion and mediated transport

45
Q

Reabsorption by diffusion happens across what? What do they connect?

A

tight junctions
they connect the tubular epithelial cells

46
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What is an example of diffusion of reabsorption?

A

urea reabsorption in the proximal tubule

47
Q

Urea is ___ filtered at glomerulus.

48
Q

Where does water reabsorption occur?

A

in the proximal tubule

49
Q

Urea concentration in the tubular fluid becomes ___ during reabsorption in the proximal tubule.

50
Q

Where does urea diffuse into?

A

the ISF and peritubular capillaries

51
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Reabsorption by mediated transport occurs across which cells?

A

tubular cells

52
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What does mediated transport of reabsorption require the participation of?

A

transport proteins

53
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What is mediated transport usually coupled to?

A

the reabsorption of sodium

54
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What moves from the tubular lumen to the tubular epithelial cells?

A

sodium, glucose, amino acids

55
Q

What moves out of the tubular epithelial cells to the peritubular capillary?

56
Q

What drives the movement of sodium, glucose and amino acids from the tubular lumen to the tubular epithelial cell?

A

low concentrations of sodium

57
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What are the proteins that helps molecules travel called?

A

cotransporter

58
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What is transport maximum?

A

when the membrane transport proteins become saturated, the tubule can not reabsorb the substance any more.

59
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What happens to transport maximum in individuals with uncontrolled diabetes mellitus?

A

it is exceeded

60
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What is the result of exceeded transport maximum in individuals with diabetes mellitus?

A

glucose appears in the urine (glucosuria)

61
Q

Tubular secretion moves substances from ___ ___ into the ___ ___.

A

peritubular capillaries
tubular lumen

62
Q

Tubular secretion is the opposite of ___.

A

reabsorption

63
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What is tubular secretion mediated by? (2)

A

diffusion and transcellular mediated transport

64
Q

In tubular secretion, most important substances secreted by the tubules are:

A

hydrogen ions and potassium

65
Q

Tubular secretion is usually coupled to the reabsorption of ___.

66
Q

In order to excrete waste products, the GFR must be very ___.

67
Q

The filtered volume of water and the filtered loads of all the nonwaste plasma solutes are very ___.

68
Q

What does the proximal tubules reabsorb?

A

most of the filtered water and solutes

69
Q

What is the proximal tubule a major site of secretion for?

A

various solutes except K+

70
Q

What does Henle’s loop reabsorb relatively large quantities of?

A

major ions (less water)

71
Q

The volume of water and masses of solutes reaching the DCT and CD are relatively ___.

72
Q

What does the DCT/CD determine?

A

the final amounts of water and masses in the urine

73
Q

Where are most homeostatic controls exerted?

74
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How does the DCT/CD determine the final amounts of water and masses excreted in the urine?

A

by adjusting the rates of reabsorption and secretion

75
Q

What is clearance?

A

the volume of plasma from which that substance is completely removed by the kidneys per unit time

76
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What is the formula for clearance?

A

mass of S excreted per unit time / plasma concentration of S

77
Q

What is the formula for mass of S excreted per unit time?

A

urine concentration os S x urine volume per unit time

78
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What can clearance be used to measure/estimate?

A

glomerular filtration rate

79
Q

How is inulin administered?

A

intravenously

80
Q

Where is inulin freely filtered?

A

glomerulus

81
Q

Is inulin reabsorbed, secreted, or metabolized by the tubule?

82
Q

What is the clearance of inulin equal to?

A

the volume of plasma originally filtered

83
Q

CNin=

84
Q

What is the most accurate marker of GFR?

85
Q

Why is inulin clearance not convinient?

A

because you have to infuse it

86
Q

How do you calculate amount of inulin excreted in the urine?

A

urine volume x inulin concentration in the urine

87
Q

How do you calculate Cin?

A

amount of inulin excreted in the urine divided by concentration of inulin in plasma

88
Q

What is creatinine?

A

a waste product produced by muscle

89
Q

Where is creatinine filtered freely?

A

glomerulus

90
Q

Is creatinine reabsorbed?

91
Q

Where is creatinine secreted in small amounts?

92
Q

What is creatine clearance used as a clinical marker for?

93
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What is the formula for creatinine clearance?

A

urine concentration of creatinine (Ucr) multiplied by urine volume divided by plasma concentration of creatinine (Pcr)

94
Q

Clearance of a substance > GFR
It is ___ at the tubule

95
Q

Clearance of a substance < GFR
It is ___ at the tubule

A

reabsorbed

96
Q

What is an example of clearance > GFR (secretion)?

A

para-amino-hippurate marker of renal plasma flow

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