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Unit 6: Hormones, Homeostasis, and Excretion Flashcards

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Homeostasis (2)

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  • the process by which organisms maintain a stable internal environment
  • the internal environment is narrow as it fluctuates very little
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What are some examples of homeostatic components? (2)

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  • body temperature
  • blood glucose levels
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What two systems are important in maintaining homeostasis? (2)

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  • nervous system
  • endocrine system
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How is the nervous system involved in regulating homeostasis?

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it send electrical impulses from the central nervous system to neurons to tissues

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How is the endocrine system involved in regulating homeostasis?

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send chemical hormones from glands through lymph and blood to tissues

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Homeostatic Mechanisms

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mechanism that maintains a set point

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What is an example of a homeostatic mechanism?

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negative feedback

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Negative Feedback

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one thing is produced which inhibits/lowers something else

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What is an example of negative feedback?

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body temperature

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Positive Feedback (2)

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  • the body continues the stimulus
  • not a homeostatic mechanism
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What is an example of positive feedback?

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contractions, oxytocin produces uterine contractions right before birth, more oxytocin, more contractions

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How is body temperature maintained? (2)

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  • by a negative feedback system
  • the hypothalamus
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How does the hypothalamus regulate body temperature?

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if body temperature is too high, it send impulses through neurons throughout the body

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What are ways to bring body temperature down if it is too high? (3)

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  1. sweat glands produce sweat for evaporative cooling
  2. metabolic rate can be lowered so that excess heat is not produced
  3. vasodilation
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What are ways to bring body temperature up if it is too low? (4)

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  1. vasoconstriction
  2. shivering
  3. hugging someone
  4. countercurrent heat exchange
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Countercurrent Heat Exchange (3)

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  • bodily process that animals only have
  • arteries carrying warm blood are in blood contact with veins conveying cool blood back toward the core
  • allows heat to transfer from the arteries to veins
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What are the 2 hormones produced to regulate blood glucose? (2)

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  • insulin
  • glucagon
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What organ produces insulin and glucagon?

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the pancreas

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Insulin

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a hormone that is responsible for glucose uptake from the blood to lower glucose concentrations

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What happens as a result of the release of insulin? (3)

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  • glucose is taken up by cells for respiration
  • glucose is stored in the liver and muscles as glycogen
  • glucose is stored as adipose tissue
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Glucagon

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a hormones that is antagonistic to insulin, it releases glucose into the blood

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What happens as a result of the release of glucagon? (2)

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  • glucose is released from glycogen in the liver and muscles
  • blood glucose concentration is increased
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Islets of Langerhans

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cells in the pancreas that regulate glucose concentration

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What types of cells in the pancreas release glucagon?

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alpha cells

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What types of cells in the pancreas release insulin?

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beta cells

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When is insulin released?

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after eating because blood glucose levels are elevated

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When is glucagon released?

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after fasting because blood glucose levels are low

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In order, what is broken down after glucose runs out? (3)

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  • glycogen
  • adipose tissue
  • muscle
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Why is it dangerous to breakdown muscle for energy?

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it decreases the pH of the blood

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Diabetes (2)

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  • a metabolic disease that concerns blood glucose concentration
  • there are two types
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Type 1 Diabetes

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an autoimmune disease where the beta cells of the pancreas are destroyed and thus insulin is not produced

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What does being unable to make insulin mean?

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glucose is not stored away

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How is type 1 diabetes treated?

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taking insulin injections

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In what states of health can patients with type 1 diabetes be in? (2)

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  • hyperglycemic
  • hypoglycemic
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Hyperglycemic

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without insulin, resting muscles cannot take up glucose, so muscle, proteins, and fat are broken down rather than glucose

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What is a possible result of hyperglycemia? (2)

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  • ketoacidosis, where dehydration occurs and pH of blood drops
  • can result in coma and death
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hypoglycemia

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leads to coma and death if left untreated

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Type 2 Diabetes (2)

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  • insulin resistant diabetes where the patient has elevated levels of insulin
  • cells have lost the ability to recognize insulin
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How do cells lose the ability to recognize insulin?

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over time, too much blood sugar accumulates and it reduces the body’s ability the to recognize insulin

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What is the result of a reduced ability to recognize insulin?

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glucose is stored away more slowly

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How is type 2 diabetes treated? (3)

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  • diet
  • exercise
  • medication
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How is exercise a form of treatment for type 2 diabetes?

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activity can remove some of the excess glucose in the blood

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What state of health is a patient with type 2 diabetes in?

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hyperglycemic

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How is fiber helpful to someone with type 2 diabetes?

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it helps get rid of toxins

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What happens if type 2 diabetes is left untreated? (2)

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  • sugar will deposit in various areas of the body which can cause blindness or limb loss
  • liver and kidneys can have decreased function
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What hormones does the thyroid produce? (2)

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  • T3
  • T4
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What is another name for the T4 hormone?

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thyroxine

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What are the functions of thyroxine? (3)

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  • increases body temperature
  • regulates bone growth and neural development
  • regulates fat, carb and protein metabolism
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What is required to produce thyroxine?

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iodine (salt)

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What happens as a result of an iodine deficiency?

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a goiter appears

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What glands also regulate hormone levels? (2)

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  • hypothalamus
  • pituitary glands
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Which hormones affect hunger and satiety? (2)

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  • leptin
  • ghrelin
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Leptin (2)

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  • released by adipose tissue to decrease hunger
  • this acts on the hypothalamus
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Ghrelin

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released by the GI tract and is released when the stomach is empty, and stops release when the stomach is stretched

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How does leptin relate to obesity?

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obesity often leads to cells being resistant to leptin even though levels are higher in blood

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What can throw off the balance of leptin and ghrelin?

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dramatic weight loss

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Melatonin (3)

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  • regulates the sleep cycle
  • anticipates darkness
  • released in darkness
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Where is melatonin produced?

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the pineal gland

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What disrupts melatonin? (2)

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  • light from phones
  • jet lag from travelling across time zones
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What hormone does melatonin interact with?

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leptin

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Excretion

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the removal of the wastes created by metabolic activities

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Why is excretion crucial for organisms?

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the products are harmful to keep

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What is the primary waste product in plants? (2)

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  • oxygen
  • must be excreted because it is reactive
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What is the primary waste product in animals? (2)

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  • carbon dioxide, which comes from cellular respiration
  • must be excreted because it lowers the pH of the blood
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What does protein digestion result in?

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surplus amino acid components, which must be removed

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What do fish excrete?

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ammonia

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What do birds excrete? (2)

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  • pasty insoluble liquid
  • this is because they do not carry much water
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What do mammals excrete? (2)

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  • urea in their urine
  • whether or not it is concentrated or diluted depends on the mammal’s water intake
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What are the components of the kidney? (6)

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  • renal vein
  • renal artery
  • ureter
  • medulla
  • pelvis
  • cortex
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Urea

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a nitrogenous waste product which humans remove in urine

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What is advantageous to do in excretion?

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conserve as much water as possible

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How is water balance achieved?

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balancing salt and hormone concentration in the kidney

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What processes is the kidney responsible for? (3)

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  • filtration
  • reabsorption
  • secretion
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How is water lost? (3)

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  • sweating
  • urination
  • breathing
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How is salt lost?

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sweating

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Nephron (2)

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  • functional unit of the kidney
  • these are supplied with blood by a renal artery which receive about 20% of cardiac output
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What does the nephron consist of? (6)

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  • glomerulus
  • Bowman’s capsule
  • proximal convoluted tubule
  • loop of Henle
  • distal convoluted tubule
  • collecting duct
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What is the purpose of a nephron?

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to balance the good and the bad

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Where do conserved products from the blood go?

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back into the bloodstream to the body

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Where do waste products from the blood go?

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through the ureters to the bladder to exit the body

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Glomerulus

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a bundle of blood vessel that allows for filtration of small solutes via a pressure gradient

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Where is the glomerulus located?

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within the Bowman’s capsule

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Where does blood enter and exit in the glomerulus? (3)

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  • blood enters through the afferent arteriole
  • blood exits through the efferent arteriole
  • both branch off from the renal artery
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How does filtration in the glomerulus occur? (2)

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  • filtration occurs as blood pressure forces fluid of from the the blood in the glomerulus into the lumen
  • the porous capillaries are permeable to water and small solutes, but not blood cells or large molecules such as proteins
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How does pressure play a role in the ultrafiltration of the glomerulus? (4)

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  • there is a pressure difference between the afferent and efferent arterioles
  • the afferent arteriole has more space, so pressure is lower
  • the efferent arteriole has less space, so pressure is higher
  • this pressure helps sift out smaller molecules
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How has filtered blood changed after going through the glomerulus?

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it is 20% of the original volume

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What does filtrate contain after going through the glomerulus? (5)

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  • salt
  • electrolytes
  • glucose
  • vitamins
  • urea
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Proximal Convoluted Tubule (PTC) (2)

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  • nutrients must be absorbed back into circulation so it pumps things out of the urine
  • solute transport substantially changes the composition of the filtrate
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How are nutrients moved in the PTC?

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via active transport for reabsorption

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What nutrients are reabsorbed in PTC? (3)

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  • glucose
  • amino acids
  • vitamins
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What is the structure of the PTC? (2)

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  • single layer of cells for easy transport
  • microvilli to increase surface area
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What is an important function of the PTC?

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reabsorption of most of the salt and water from the initial filtrate

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How does Na+ move across PTC?

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actively

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How does Cl- move across the PTC?

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passively

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How does water move across the PTC?

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via osmosis

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Where does most water and glucose go from the PTC?

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back into circulation rather than being excreted in the urine

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What happens to glucose in the PTC for diabetics?

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there is an increased blood glucose, so not all of it is reabsorbed

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Loop of Henle (2)

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  • composed of the descending and ascending limbs, main role is to increase solute concentration in the medulla
  • reabsorption of water continues as the filtrate moves into the descending limb of the LoH
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Descending Limb (2)

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  • freely permeable to water, but not to salt
  • for water to move out by osmosis, the interstitial fluid bathing the tubule must be hypertonic to filtrate
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What is the purpose of the descending limb?

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to increase water absorption

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Ascending Limb (2)

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  • permeable to salt, but not water
  • as filtrate goes up the ascending limb, NaCl is secreted out of the tubule into the interstitial fluid
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What is the purpose of the ascending limb?

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to pump salt

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What is filtrate like when it leaves the LoH?

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it still has relatively large amount of water

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Collecting Duct(2)

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  • where water is released depending on the body’s need for it
  • permeable to water, but not salt or urea
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How does urine become more concentrated?

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as water is reabsorbed by osmosis

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What does the collecting duct do if the body is in need of water? (3)

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  • more water will be reabsorbed by the collecting duct
  • the hypothalamus produces and the posterior pituitary releases Anti-Diuretic Hormone (ADH)
  • ADH creates aquaporins in the duct for water to pass through
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What does the collecting duct do if the body is not in need of water? (3)

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  • if there is excess water in the body, ADH is not released
  • water can be excreted along with urine
  • this is negative feedback because ADH prevents additional water loss
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Why does alcohol inhibit ADH? (2)

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  • alcohol is mainly composed of water
  • this is why people get dehydrated

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