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What are the basic renal processes?

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  • Filtration
  • Reabsorption
  • Secretion
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What is renal filtration?

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The formation at the glomerular capillaries of an essentially protein-free filtrate of plasma (~20%)

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What does the high (180l/day) GFR means?

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kidney has ample opportunity to precisely regulate ECF volume and composition and eliminate “nasty” substances.

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What types of substances are reabsorbed?

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Substances that the body wants, those it doesn’t want stay in the tubule and are excreted

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In what way may substances be specifically removed from the body?

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Secretion

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What is the blood flow to the kidneys?

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~1200mls/min (20-25% of total cardiac output)

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How do the kidneys have such as high BF/g of tissue?

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They weigh less than 1% of the total body weight but receive almost a quarter of the blood flow

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Why are the kidneys vulnerable to damage by vascular disease?

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They have such a high BF

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How long does it take a volume of blood equal to that of total blood volume to pass through the renal circulation?

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<5 minutes

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What happens to the blood that enters the Bowman’s capsule?

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none of the red cells and only a fraction of the plasma is filtered through into Bowman’s capsule. the remainder passes via efferent arterioles into the peritubular capillaries and then to renal vein.

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What is the renal plasma flow?

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660mls/min

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What is the normal GFR?

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125mls/min

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How much of the renal plasma becomes glomerular filtrate?

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19%

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What is glomerular filtration dependent on?

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The balance between the hydrostatic forces favouring filtration and the oncotic pressure forces favouring reabsorption. (Starling’s forces).

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What determines the filterability of solutes across the glomerular filtration barrier?

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  • Molecular size
  • Electrical charge
  • Shape
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Why is glomerular capillary pressure higher than in most of the capillaries?

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afferent arteriole is short and wide and offers little resistance to flow so the blood arriving at the glomerulus still has a high hydrostatic pressure.

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What offers high post capillary resistance?

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The unique arrangement of the efferent arteriole which is long and narrow

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What is the golden rule of circulation?

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If you have a high resistance, hydrostatic pressure upstream is increased, while the pressure downstream is decreased.

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What is the only process which occurs at the glomerular capillaries?

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Why is filtration the only process which occurs at the glomerular capillaries?

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The hydrostatic pressure which favours filtration always exceeds the oncotic pressure

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What is the glomerular capillary pressure dependent on?

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The afferent and efferent arteriolar diameter and therefore the balance of resistance between them

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What is the diameter of the afferent and efferent arterioles subject to extrinsic control via?

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  • sympathetic VC nerves: greater sensitivity of afferent arteriole
  • circulating catecholamines: greater sensitivity of afferent arteriole constriction
  • angiotensin II: constriction of efferent at [low], both afferent and efferent at [high]
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What is crucial in determining GFR?

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Relative diameter of afferent and efferent arterioles

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What is autoregulation?

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intrinsic ability of renal vasculature to adjust resistance in response to changes in arterial BP to keep BP and GFR constant

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When is autoregulation effective in man?
Over a range of MBP from 60-130mmHg
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What happens to autoregulation below 60mmHg?
Filtration falls
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What happens to autoregulation at 50mmHg?
It ceases altogether
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What is autoregulation independent of?
Nerves or hormones | occurs in denervated and in isolated perfused kidneys
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How does autoregulation prevent a rise in glomerular capillary pressure?
If mean arterial pressure increases, there is an automatic increases in afferent arteriolar constriction to prevent a rise in glomerular capillary pressure
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What happens to the glomerular capillary pressure if the mean arterial pressure decreases?
Afferent arterioles dilate to decrease the afferent arteriole pressure
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How can autoregulation be overridden in situations where blood volume/BP face serious compromise?
activation of sympathetic VC nerves liberating blood for more immediately important organs.
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What can prolonged reduction in renal BF lead to?
Irreparable damage which may then lead to death because of disruption of the kidney’s role in homeostasis.
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What adaptation do athletes competing in marathons undergo?
Endurance training for very long events involves adaptation of skeletal muscle so that its requirement for blood flow becomes more efficient and therefore there is less need to take it from the kidneys.
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What are responsible for reabsorption?
Peritubular capillaries
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Why must enormous amounts of fluid be reabsorbed back into the peritubular capillaries?
Since 180 l/day are filtered through the glomerulus into the renal tubule, but only 1-2 l/day are excreted as urine
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What has important effects on Starling's forces in the peritubular capillaries?
The unique efferent arteriole
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What important effect does the efferent arteriole have in the Starling forces in the peritubular capillaries?
It offers resistance along its entire length which means there is a large pressure drop meaning the hydrostatic pressure is very low ~Ppc 15mmHg
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Why does only filtration occur at the glomerular capillaries?
Glomerular capillary pressure> pulse pressure
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Why is the pertibular capillary pressure very low?
Due to the hydrostatic pressure overcoming frictional resistance in efferent arterioles
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Why do the peritubular capillaries have a higher osmotic pressure?
Since ~20% of the plasma has filtered into Bowman’s capsule in the glomerulus, (filtration fraction), the blood remaining in the efferent arteriole and then the peritubular capillaries has a higher concentration of plasma proteins
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Why is the Starling's forces in the peritubular capillaries in favour of reabsorption ?
due to the net result of the low peritubular capillary pressure and the high osmotic pressure
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Where is 99% H2O, 100% of glucose, 99.5% of Na and 50% of urea filtered at the glomerulus reabsorbed?
Within the tubule, mainly at the proximal convoluted tubule

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