Physiology Flashcards
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What % of potassium is intracellular? In what cells is it located?
What is considered hypokalemia?
Hyperkalemia?
What percentage is filtered then reabsorbed?
98% is ICF Muscle cells <3.5 mEq/L >5.0 mEq/L 86.1%
A histological slide shows shrunken cells. What can you infer about the K+ concentration?
There’s low levels of ICF plasma Potassium in the cells as well, what might this indicate?
Cell shrinkage = Loss of K+
Cell swelling = Gain of K+
Low plasma [K+] = Cell alkalosis
High plasma [K+] Cell acidosis
Calcium is mostly stored where? What percentage?
How much is bound to plasma proteins?
What effect does hypocalcemia have on muscle tissue?
What percentage is filtered then reabsorbed?
99% in bone
40% bound to plasma proteins
Hypocalcemia: increases excitability (decreased charge makes it easier for Na+ to get across membrane)
Hypercalcemia: decreases excitability
98.2%
Lab test shows elevated serum calcium, what are 2 differentials?
Now it’s low serum calcium. 3 differentials?
Elevated Serum Ca
Primary hyperparathyroidism
Malignancy
Low Serum
Hypoparathyroidism
Renal Disease
Vitamin D Deficiency
Where is phosphate stored? How much is bound to protein? HOw much of the unbound phosphate is filtered? Reabsorbed in PCT? Reabsorbed in PST?
85% in bone
14% ICM
31% is protein bound
90% filtered
70% reabsorbed PCT
15% reabsorbed PST
In phosphate metabolism, what is the dietary role?
Calcitriol?
PTH?
Renal Tubular?
Diet: Intake and absorption
Calcitriol: Increase phosphorus resorption from bone and absorption from intestine
PTH: Phosphorus resorption directly from bone. Sitmulates calcitriol
Renal Tube: Reabsorption of phosphorus. Stimulated by Tubular filtered load and inhibited by PTH.
A patient can present to the clinic with a variety of symptoms such as: Muscle cramps, epilepsy, SIDS, arrhtymia and migraines. What could cause these things?
Magensium deficiency
What is the MOA of pseudohypoparathyroidism?
Crappy GPCR complex
How much Mg is bound to plasma proteins? How much is filtered? Reabsorbed in PCT? Thich ascending LoH? DCT? Where is magnesium stored?
Bound: 20% Filtered: 80% PCT: 30% LoH: 60% DCT: 5%
50% bone, 49% ICF
What is the MOA of calcitonin?
What conditions may lead to stimulation of calcitonin?
- opposes PTH
Hypercalcemia –> Calcitionin –> promotes phosphate and calcium excretion
Osteoporosis
Paget’s disease
Hypercalcemia
What is the MOA of calcitriol?
Calcitriol = Vitamin D
binds to Vitam D receptor –> promotes phosphate and calcium reabsorption
A molecule must use the transcellular route to get through the endothelial cells of the tubules. What does this mean?
Goes straight through the cell, through the apical membrane –>
Diffusion through cytosol –> Transport across basolateral membrane –>
Through the interstitial space
Avoids tight junctions!
A molecule must use the paracellular route to get through the endothelial cells of the tubules. What does this mean?
Goes around the cells and through tight junctions. Mostly in the PCT
A cell needs a carrier to get through a membrane, but ATP is not needed. WHat type of transport is this?
Facilitated diffusion
You get to Wall Street and 26th and notice the one way doesn’t turn green unless there are 2 vehicles going the same direction. It seems the Jopper driver finds it harder to speed up than the California license plated driver. This reminds you of what type of transport? What molecule represents the California driver? What tissues is this found in?
Give 3 examples
Cotransport
ATP used indirectly
Na+ is going downhill, others are uphill.
Renal tubule and small intestine.
SGLT (Na, Glucose)
Na+, amino acid cotransport.
Na, K, 2Cl- cotransport.
What type of transporter is the NXC transporter?
What about hte Ca ATPase?
How do they work?
Countertransporter
Use energy from Na K ATPase. Solutes move opposite directions
3Na for every 1 Ca
Which transporter uses ATP directly?
Primary active transport
Carriers have to mediate 3 things. What 3 things affect carriers?
- Saturation: Limited number of binding sites, so once saturated, you’ve hit Tm and rate levels off.
- Stereospecificity: Only transports certain conformations of a molecule (simple diffusion takes glucose, stereospecificty says only L-type glucose)
- Competition: Chemically related solutes compete for the spot.
What specific transporter is located on every cell’s membrane?
What is it’s MOA? include shapes and ratios.
Na K ATPase
3Na –> ECF
2K –> ICF
alpha subunit is where things bind.
- E1: Let go of K+
- E1 –P : grabs onto 3 IC Na
- E2-P: Lets go of Na+
- E2: grabs onto EC K+
What specific transporter is found on gastric parietal cells and alpha intercalated (dark cells) in the renal collecting duct?
What is it’s MOA?
H/K+ ATPase
Pumps H+ from ICF to lumen of stomach.
What specific transporter is located on Sarcoplasmic reticulum and Endoplasmic reticulum?include shapes and ratios
Ca++ ATPase
AKA PMCA
1 Ca++ = 1 ATP
E1 binds IC Ca++
E2 releases Ca to EC
A pt presents with frequent urination and elevated glucose levels in blood and glucosuria. What causes glucosuria?
Diabetes Mellitus, Pregnancy, Congenital abnormality of Na- glucose cotransporter.
What is MOA of glucosuria and diabetes mellitis?
Pregnancy?
Crappy Na Glucose cotransporter?
DM: no insulin to uptake glucose –> glucose overwhelms the cotransporter –> not as much reabsorbed
Pregnancy:
GFR increased -> increased filtration –> So much filtered that Cotransporter is overwhelmed.
Crappy Na glucose cotransporter:
Decreased Tm, glucose excreted at lower than normal plasma concentrations.
Why does splay happen?
Reabsorption is aproaching saturation but hasn’t gotten tehre yet, glucose is still excreted. Why?
Low affinity of Na- glucose cotransporter -if glucose falls off, it’s not getting back onto another one because they’re full.
All nephrons do not have the same Tm