CVPR Week 8: Renal handling of P Flashcards
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Phosphorus flux between body compartments

Why is keeping phosphate levels in the normal range important
It is required to permit normal calcium deposition and retrieval from bone
Mechanisms of intestinal phosphorus absorption
- Between cells (paracellular)
- through cells (intracellular)

Features of paracellular intestinal phosphorus absorption
- Passive process
- Quantitatively significant when intake is high
Features of transcellular intestinal phosphorus absorption
- Active process
- Influenced by calcitriol
- Calbindin: acts as an intracellular sink to reduce the microvilli [Ca]
Describe renal handling of phosphorus
- PCT 85%
- TAHL 10%
- DCT 3%
- CD 2%

Main mechanism of proximal tubule phosphorus transport
entirely transcellular driven by sodium transport
What gets absorbed in the proximal tubule?
Most stuff (glucose, phosphorus, calcium, amino acids, ketoacids) get absorbed with sodium in the proximal tubule
What is the mechanism of volume depletion and depleted potassium stores in diabetic ketoacidosis?
(ketoaciduria -> increased ketone body reabsorption in the PT -> reduced availability of Na+ for the reabsorption of proximal tubule substrates)
Proximal tubule phosphorus handling

Factors that increase renal absorption of phosphorus
3 listed
- Low-phosphate diet
- 1, 25-Vitamin D3
- Thyroid hormone
Factors that decrease renal absorption of phosphorus
9 listed
- Parathyroid hormone
- Phosphatonins (e.g FGF23)
- High-phosphate diet
- Metabolic acidosis
- Potassium deficiency
- Glucocorticoids
- Dopamine
- Hypertension
- Estrogen
Describe Paraneoplastic tumor-induced osteomalacia
Release of FGF23 by cancer cells: bone pain/fractures/weakness from hypophosphorus
What is FGF23?
Fibroblast growth factor 23 is a phosphantonin and is a key regulator of phosphorus homeostasis
FGF23 AKA
Fibroblast Growth Factor 23
What is a phosphatonin?
i.e. hormone regulating Phosphorus excretion
Where is FGF23 produced?
exclusively in osteocytes and bone-lining cells
FGF23 synthesis is influenced by?
Synthesis increases by
- Phosphorus
- PTH
- Calcitriol
The most rapid inducer of FGF23 expression is?
Calcitriol
How can diet effect FGF23?
A high phosphorus dietary intake can stimulate FGF23 expression
Where is the FGF23 receptor
FGF23R is in the kidney
Describe the FGF23-R
found in the kidney and requires the coreceptor Klotho (which is found in the parathyroids) which decrease in number in aging and CKD
FGF23-R coreceptor
Klotho
CKD AKA
Chronic Kidney Disease

