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What is homeostasis

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Maintaining a constant internal environment despite internal/external changes

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Name 4 things we have to control in homeostasis

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Body temp
ion levels
water levels
glucose levels

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What is negative feedback

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When a response to a change returns the system to the ideal levels

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what is positive feedback

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response to a change that increases the degree of change

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What are endotherms

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Generate heat yourself eg. mammals

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What are ectotherms

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dependant on external heat sources eg. lizards

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Describe how an ectotherm maintains its body temperature

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Behaviours

  • exposing themselves to sun
  • taking shelter
  • gaining warmth from ground
  • colour variations
  • shaking and moving
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Describe how an endotherm maintains its body temperature

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Detection in thermoregulation centre in the hypothalamus and skin temp receptors

Heat gain centre- activated by a fall in blood temp
- causes heat gain
Heat loss centre - activated by a rise in temp
- causes heat loss

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What is the role of the liver?

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converts lactic acid to glucose
produces bile
metabolism of alcohol and toxins
deamination
disposal of RBCs
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What are essential amino acids

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amino acids we can not synthesise, they are essential to get from our diet

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How can non-essential amino acids be synthesised

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essential amino acids –> (transamination)–> converted to non-essential amino acids

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What is the name of the series of reactions that form urea in the liver

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Ornithine cycle

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Name the 3 main blood vessles in the liver

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Hepatic artery
Hepatic vein
Hepatic portal vein

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What is the role of the hepatic artery

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carries oxygenated blood to the liver

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What is the role of the hepatic vein

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carries deoxygenated blood away from the liver

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What is the role of the hepatic portal vein

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carries blood from the digestive system to liver

blood is deoxygenated and nutrient-rich

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Describe the structure of a sinusoid

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hepatic portal vein and hepatic artery at top of sinusoid
a single layer of cells forming the wall of sinusoid surrounded by hepatocytes
Blood drains through the lumen to hepatic vein

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What are Kupffer cells

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Adapted macrophages

Ingest foreign particles and protect against disease

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What are the 3 main vessels in the kidney

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renal artery
renal vein
ureter

20
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Where does urine from the ureter go?

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ureter –> bladder –> urethra

21
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Describe the basic structure of the kidney

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pelvis in centre
cortex (bark) on outside
medulla on inside
made of nephrons

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What are the medulla and cortex made of

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Cortex - Bowmans capsule, convoluted tubules etc.

Medulla - loop of henle, collecting duct

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What is a group of nephrons called

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Describe the structure of a nephron

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(glomerulus feeding into) Bowmans capsule
proximal convoluted tubule
descending limb of loop of henle
ascending limb of loop of henle
distal convoluted tubult
collecting duct
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Describe the movement of blood through the Bowmans capsule into proximal convoluted tubule
Enters glomerulus through the afferent artery and glows through the glomerulus leaves through the efferent artery afferent artery wide, efferent artery narrow causes high pressure forces plasma out of glomerulus through basement membrane and podocytes into bowmans capsule and to proximal convoluted tubule
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What is the role of the basement membrane and podocytes
prevents blood cells from leaving | double filter system
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What happens to filtrate in the proximal convoluted tubule
reabsorption of amino acids , glucose, vitamins, hormones | reabsorption of most NaCl and H2O
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What is osmolarity
a measure how how much (moles) of a xolute is dissolved (0 is pure water, higher is more concentrated)
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Describe how the loop of henle filters water out of the filtrate
initially filtrate is isotonic with surroundings Na and Cl ions actively transported out of ascending limb, osmolarity of interstitial fluid increases Water moves out descending limb due to osmotic gradient, creating more concentrated filtrate This replaces the more diluted filtrate in ascending limb cycle repeats Filtrate in interstitial space can diffuse into blood vessles
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How are the nephrons of desert animals adapted?
Longer loop of henle - allows more water absorption
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What happens to filtrate in distal convoluted tubule?
Fine tuning of water balance
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What happens in the collecting duct
Takes urine to pelvis and then ureter
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What sections of nephrons are affected by ADH
distal convoluted tubule and collecting duct
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What is osmoregulation?
Maintaining the water balance in your blood within the narrow boundary
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What is water balance affected by (why many we need osmoregulation)?
Water uptake | Solute conc
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what would happen if the water balance was too high
cells would lyse (burst)
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what would happen if the water balance was too low
no transport medium | water is essential for chemical reactions
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what is ADH
Anti Diuretic Hormone
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When is ADH produced?
When you're All Dried up - when water balance is too low in the blood
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Where is ADH detected and produced?
detected in hypotalamus | produced in pituitary gland
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What does ADH do
Increase the absorption of water into the blood, negative feedback
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How does ADH effect its target cells?
ADH binds to ADH receptor Secondary messenger cAMP produced Causes vesicles to fuse to cell surface membrane Vesicles contain aquaporin creates pores for water to diffuse through (from urine to interstitial fluid)
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Names the components of urine
``` water urea NaCl Hormones Metabolites of drugs ```
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What are the medical uses of urine
Pregnancy testing DIabetes testing Detection of drugs/drug metabolites
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How does haemodialysis work?
Blood from veins run through dialysis fluid (that is kept at constant temp) Dialysis fluid isotonic for hormones, amino acids etc. but contains no urea Urea diffuses out

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