REVIEW TEST4 Flashcards
What is function of kidney?
Excretion Blood volume regulation Concentration of solute Regulate extracellular fluid pH Red blood cell synthesis = secrete erythropoietin when not enough O2 in blood Activate Vitamin D
Arrange in order : minor calyxes to urethra (6)
Minor calyx Major calyx Renal pelvis Ureters Urinary bladder Urethra
How is the kidney protected from mechanical shock?
Renal capsule is a layer of adipose tissue cushions the kidney against mechanical shock, protected under ribs and layers of muscle
Blood vessel, nerves, ureter enter/leave kidney where?
Renal hilum
Kidney’s cone shaped renal pyramid. What does it called?
Renal medulla
Renal pyramid
What’s the tissue between pyramid called?
Renal column
What’s the function of unit of the kidney called?
Nephron
Filtering, reabsorbing, secrete excess solute that we don’t need
Network of capillaries in the bowman’s capsule, what is it called?
Glomerulus
What’s the filtration slits?
Podocyte wrap around capillary so amino acid can go through, but not protein and RBCells
Structure in afferent arterial, that would change blood flow to…..? Next structure?
Glomerulus
What is the filtration membrane consist of?
Podocyte
Capillary endothelium
Basement membrane
What is the portion of nephron that empties into the collecting duct?
Distal convoluted tubule
Renal corpuscle connect to :
Glomerulus and bowmans capsule
Proximal convoluted tubule
Arrange in sequence in which the filtrate move through them
(Glomerulus (blood)) Bowmans capsule (filtrate) Proximal convoluted tubule Loop of Henle Distal convoluted tubule Collecting duct Renal papilla Minor calyx Major calyx Renal pelvis Ureter Urinary bladder Urethra
What is Vasa recta?
Capillaries maintain countercurrent exchange between Vasa recta and loop of Henle, work together to filter blood to concentrate urine
What is the skeletal muscle that surround urethra? What does it do?
External urethral sphincter
= voluntary control urination
What % of filtrate becomes urine?
Less than 1%.