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Renal Physiology Flashcards

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RBCs waste product is bilirubin, while for muscles it is?

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Creatinine

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If urea is the waste product of proteins, then the waste product of purines will be?

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Uric acid

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Location of the kidney

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T12-L3 - weighing about 150g

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3
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Most vascularized part of the kidney

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Cortex

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Functional unit of the kidney

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Nephron

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Only capillaries of the body that leads to arterioles and not venules

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Glomerular capillaries - responsible for the GFR

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Secrets Erythropoietin (EPO)

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Interstitial cells of peritubular capillaries

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Hairpin loop-shaped peritubular capillaries of the juxtaglomerular nephrons that participate in countercurrent exchange

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Vasa recta

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Capacity of the bladder

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600ml

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9
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Urge to urinate

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150ml

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Bladder muscle

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Detrusor muscle

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Type of nephron located at the corticomedullary junction with vasa recta and long loops of Henle

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Juxtamedullary nephrons

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Parts of the nephron

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Renal corpuscle

Renal tubular system

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Capillary endothelium of the renal corpuscles secretes?

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Nitric oxide and endothelin - 1

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Final filtration with filtration slit diaphragm

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Podocytes

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Found in between capillaries, involved in glomerular diseases

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Mesangial cells

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Secretes Renin

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JG cells - glomerular cells of the afferent arterioles found at the walls of the afferent arterioles

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Found at the distal convoluted tubule, monitor sodium concentration in the DT

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Macula densa

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Macula densa is located at?

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Early distal tubule or First part of the Distal Tubule

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Refers to the movement from glomerular capillaries to Bowman’s space

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Filtration

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Refers to movement from peritubular capillaries to interstitium to Tubules

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Secretion (tubular)

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Refers to movement from tubules to interstitium to peritubular capillaries

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Reabsorption

22
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Estimates GFR

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Inulin, creatinine

23
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Refer to Renal plasma/ blood flow parameter

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PAH

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