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What is the Glomerulus?

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Big ball of capillaries

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What does the glomerulus make?

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Plasma/glomerular ultrafiltrate…this filtrate is cell free and protein free.

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What percent of total blood flow do the kidneys get?

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10% per kidney….20% total

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What do the Tubules do?

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Reabsorption

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Tubules reabsorb how much of the filtrate?

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178 out of 180 liters. This is why we only make about 1-2 liters of urine a day

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Best test of kidney function>

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GFR

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Where does glomerular filtration go?

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Bowmans capsule

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4 stages of renal function>

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filtration, reabsorption, secretion, excretion

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Outermost layer of kidney?

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Renal Cortex

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What percent of bloodflow does the renall cortex receive?

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90% of the 10% directed to the kidneys.

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What is inside the renal cortex?

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The glomeruli (about 800k of them)

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What is deep to the renal cortex?

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Medulla

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What is inside the medulla

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tubular structures, loop of henle, collecting ducts, etc…

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Deep to medulla?

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Hilum- arteries, veins, ureter, nerves, lymph, all here.

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What is a nephron?

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Glomerulus and Tubular structure

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Where are Cortical nephrons?

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superficial

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Besides cortical nephrons, what is the other kind of nephron?

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Juxtamedullary nephron

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Are cortical nephrons operating at 100%?

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NEVER. we use reserve when we eat high protein meals.

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What is the major function of the juxtamedullary nephrons

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Urine concentration

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What, besides urine concentration does the juxtamedullary nephron play a large role in?

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Na transport.

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What is the only source of blood supply to the medulla?

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Vasa Recta

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22
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What does the vasa recta follow?

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Loop of henle

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What can be transferred between the ascending and descending medulla?

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solute and oxygen

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What is the glowerulus surrounded by?

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Bowmans capsule

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What the hell is an afferent arteriole?
Supplies pre-glomerular resistance
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What the hell is the afferent arteriole?
supplies pre-glomerular resistance
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What the hell is the efferent arteriole?
Post glomerular resistance
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Describe the capillary wall of the glomeruli?
endothelial cells are the innermost layer, then glomerular basement membrane, then foot processes
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Why the complexity of the capillary wall?
designed to keep in large proteins, mostly albumin...keeps it out of urinary space.
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Are glomeruli perfused by higher or lower pressure than ordinary capillaries?
Higher
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WHy higher pressure in the glomerulus?
In favor of filtration
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Why are foot processes negatively charged?
Becuase, albumin is actually small enough that it COULD pass through the glomerular capillary wall. The negative charges repel it. Foot processes surround every glomerular capillary
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What is a mesangium?
Provides skeletal structure to support the capillary loops
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Are mesagnial cells contractile?
Yes, contain actin and myosin so that they can alter capillary surface area for filtration
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WHy do mesangial cells have macrophage function?
To remove circulating immune complexes.
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What layer(s) separate the mesangium from the circulation
only the endothelial layer
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Podocytes?
Visceral epithelial cells (foot process) very negatively charged. ANy disease that results in proteinuria has a problem with this
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What does the macula densa do?
Senses how much tubular fluid is reaching the macula densa. 90% of fluid reabsorbed before reaching macula densa/
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What comes before the macula densa?
ALL tubular segments,,, thats why 90% of fluid is reabsorbed prior to reaching the MD.
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After the macula densa?
Distal nephron segment for fine tuning homeostasis.
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What is Tubular Glomerular feedback>
feedback from the the tubule to the glomerulus. If it senses too much delivery to the distal nephron, it changes the filtration rate.
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Starling forces?
promote filtration, hydrostatic out of capilary.
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This doesnt cover the formulas
or the last few pages of the presentation...look at that.
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Define renal clearance
Volume of plasma cleared of a particular substance by elimination into the urine per unit time.
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Renal clearance =
(Urine concentration of substance z)x Urine flow rate/ Plasma concentration of substance z
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Best measure of GFR?
creatinine clearance
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Clearance Ratio
Clearance of a particular
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clearance ratio?
clearance rate of a substance over the GFR
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What is clearance ration used for?
To tell us how the kidney handles a particular substance
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Clearance ratio 1, less than 1, more than 1
1- creatinine, less= filtered then reabsorbed, more than= filtered and secreted 0= too large to be filtered or completely filtered and completely reabsorbed
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About what percent of Renal Plasma Flow becomes glomerular filtrate?
20%
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Volume Depletion (bleeding) leads to activation of what system
Renin Angiotensin
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What is the key cell in reabsorption>
Renal epithelial cell
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Two types of renal epithelial cell transporter?
Luminal, Basolateral
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What separates luminal transporters from basolateral?
Tight junctions
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Are there a bunch of Na out K in pumps on the basolateral surface? Luminal?
Basolateral- Yep Luminal- No way. this would be counterproductive, you are trying to reomove Na from the filtrate and take it back into the cells, this would pump it out.
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What is load dependent reabsorption?
The proximal tubule reabsorbs 50-55% of the filtered load even when GFR increases. Fraction of filtrate reabsorbed stays the same always.

Renal: Kidney Intro 4/9/13 (1 decks)

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