PHYSIOLOGY OF THE URINARY SYSTEM - Overview of kidney function and Filtration

Question 1

What are the chief functions of the kidneys?

Answer 1

To process blood and form urine

Question 2

What is the basic functional unit of the kidney and what does it form?

Answer 2

Nephron

forms urine through three processes

Question 3

What are the 3 processes of the nephron in forming urine?

Answer 3

Filtration
Reabsorption
Secretion

Question 4

What is the movement of water and solutes from the plasma in the glomerulus into the capsular space of the Bowman’s capsule?

Answer 4

Filtration

Question 5

What is the movement of molecules out of the renal tubule and into the peritubular blood?

Answer 5

Reabsorption

Question 6

What is the movement of molecules out of the peritubular blood and into the renal tubule for excretion?

Answer 6

Secretion

Question 7

What is the first step in blood processing that occurs in the renal corpuscles?

Answer 7

Filtration

Question 8

From the blood in the glomerular capillaries what is filtered into the Bowman’s capsule? Where does it take place?

Answer 8

water and solutes

It takes place through the glomerular-capsular membrane

Question 9

Filtration occurs due to existence of what????

Answer 9

a pressure gradient

Question 10

What occurs rapidly due to the increased number of fenestrations?

Answer 10

Glomerular capillary filtration

Question 11

What two things are directly related to systemic blood pressure

Answer 11

Glomerular hydrostatic pressure and filtration