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What are the two rules for compensation?
Compensation by the other system will never return our system back to normal
Why is the DCT and the CD important for respiratory alkalosis and acidosis?
Cells here can secrete HCO3- or H- on demand.
If acidotic, what will the DCT and CD do?
Move H+ ion to urine and take HCO3 and move it back to the blood, compensating for respiratory acidosis (plasma HCO3 levels will increase)
If respiratory alkalosis the DCT/CD cells will do what?
HCO3 will go to the urine and the H+ will go to the blood, so the HCO3 plasma levels will be lower and the pH will become more acidic
-Type B intercalated cells-
Osmolarity of blood can be measured how?
Remember normal osmolarity is 290mOsmoles/L
Osmolarity = (2xserumNa) + (BUN/2.8) + (glucose/18)
What is the difference between acute respiratory acidosis and chronic respiratory acidosis?
ARA–> Changes in HCO3- will cause a large change in your pH
CRA–> Large changes in HCO3- will cause small changes in your pH because your kidneys are compensating acidosis by increasing your bicarb to help you maintain a more normal PH
We do not need to know the equation for acute and chronic respiratory acidosis/alkalosis. How do we figure it out just by looking?
For respiratory acidosis/alkalosis, if the HCO3 is close to normal, it is acute. If it is far away, it is chronic.
What are type B intercalated cells important for?
Cl- reabsorption
How can we tell if something is Cl- responsive?
It urine chloride levels are low compared to serum, the body is trying to hang onto chloride, meaning that they are chloride responsive.
In the PT, how does volume contraction affect HCO3-
Increase the reabsorption.
Diarrhea
Lose HCO3- in the stool and it leads to metabolic acidosis.
What increases out anion gap? (metabolic acidosis)
- DKA
- ASN
- Ischemic tissue with a build up of lactate
- Ingestion of EtOH
What happens if we OD on opiates?
Respitory acidosis becaue opiates shut down our breathing.
Urea recycling depends on ADH. Thus, reabsorption of urea will increase the osmolarity of the ISF. which will promote water to be reabsorbed from the descending loop.
Thus, if we have enough water, how will urea be affected?
No ADH= no reabsorption of urea.
Thus, if we do not need to reabsorb water, then we do not reabsorb urea.
When is the osmolarity of the ISF greater?
W/ ADH or w/o ADH?
WITH ADH because then we are reabsorbing urea–> increases concentration gradieint
A high amount of urea in the medulla means that we have made the inner medullary CD permeable to urea, meaning that?
we have released ADH, which is also reabsorbing water.
This means that we are secreting a small amount of concentrated urine.
what is a antidiuresis
produced by high adh levels
secrete a small amount of concentrated urine
_____ is great in acidic conditions. It will promote the secretion of H+ ions via the H+ ATPase in the intercalated cells.
Aldosterone
ADH responses to changes in
- Plasma osmolarity
- BP/BV
- Angiotensin II
- Nausea
- ANP
Aldosterone is released in response to
- Indirectly via angiotensin II
- Directly via high plasma K+ levels
hyponatremia usually occurs during
high ADH. very rearely a consequence of not eating enough Na+ or polydipsia
hypenatremia is often due to
- impaired thirst
2 decreased water consumption
polyuria is often assx with _______
polydipsia (too much water consumption)
where is most water reabsorbed
Obligatory urine volume is the amount of urine a person must excrete in a given day based on their weight. If the kidney can concentrate up to 1200 mOsm, how do we calculate obligatory urine volume?
____mOsm of solute a person of a certain weight must excrete/1200mOsm