FINAL EXAM Flashcards
KIDNEY
What is the first capillary bed blood encounters as it enters the kidney?
Glomerular Capillaries
Ball of veins
average pressure is twice as much as peripheral capillaries
Whats the cause of the decrease in blood pressure in the glomerular capillaries from the renal artery ?
The high vascular resistance from the afferent arteriole
renal artery pressure 100 mmHg
Glomerular capillary pressure 60 mmHg
pressure gradient 40 mmHg
What is the high pressure of the glomerular capillaries directly correlated with?
Driving filtration
maintaining GFR
What is normal GFR ?
125 mL/min
(180 L/day)
What are the four forces that determine filtration or reabsorption ?
Starlings forces
1. Capillary Hydrostatic Pressure (Pcap)
2. Interstitial Fluid Hydrostatic pressure ( Pisf)
3. Plasma Colloid Osmotic Pressure (𝜋cap)
4. Interstitial Colloid Osmotic Pressure (𝜋isf)
What are fenestrations and where are they?
numerous small openings in the endothelial cells of glomerular capillaries , where fluid and substances can be filtered.
Which is more permeable the renal glomerular membrane or muscle capillaries ?
Renal glomerular membrane
by about 500x
except for plasma proteins
What is filtration ? and what favors filtration ?
movement of fluid from the capillaries into the interstitial
Hydrostatic Pressure , Plasma Osmotic Pressure, and Interstitial Colloid pressure
Pcap/ 𝜫 cap / 𝜫 isf
What is reabsorption? And what favors it ?
the movement of fluid from the interstitial space back into the capillaries
Interstital Fluid Hydrostatic Pressure
Pisf
How is over-perfusion prevented in the kidney?
constriction or increased resistance at the Afferent Arteriole.
What is blood flow filtration a product of in the kidneys ?
Auto-regulation of renal blood flow through the kidneys
How do you calculate NFP in regular capillaries?
Pcap - Pisf - 𝜫 cap + 𝜫 isf = NFP
Can the kidney auto-regulate itself on its own ?
yes - without meds- via imperfect auto-regulation
What is the Plasma Oncotic-osmotic pressure in the afferent arteriole ?
28 mmHg
factors in the proteins dissolved in the plasma portion of blood
same as in the blood as at the systemic capillary
What should we not loose or filter if were healthy ?
Oncotic colloids
plasma proteins
glucose
What is Glomerular Plasma Colloid Osmotic pressure at the middle ? at the end ?
32 mmHg in the middle
36 mmHg at the end
further along more fluid is filtered and more proteins get concentrated
What is Ptube?
Hydrostatic pressure in the kidney tubule about 18 mmHg
What is the protein osmotic pressure in the early part of the tubule ?
should be 0 for healthy people.
How do you calculate NFP in the Kidney ?
60 mmHg - 32 mmHg - 18 mmHg = 10 mmHg
Glomerular pressure (60mmHg)
Colloid pressure in the capillaries (32mmHg) - Fluid pressure in the tubule (18mmHg)
How do you calculate filtration rate ? what is its units?
(K f) (NFP) = FR in mL/min
average = 12.5 mL/min
What is K f?
Filtration coefficient
What is the calculation of Filtration rate equate to ?
actual tissue flow
Whats the second arteriole blood encounters in the kidney ?
Efferent Arteriole
Which arteriole increases GFR the most ?
Efferent Arteriole
increased restriction at the efferent arteriole will increase upstream blood pressure that will increase filtration