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Filtration without resorption takes place in which regions of the nephron?

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Glomerular capillaries

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Why is pressure in the peritubular capillaries low?

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Hydrostatic pressure overcoming frictional resistance in the efferent arterioles

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Why is the oncotic pressure high in the peritubular capillaries?

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Loss of 20% of plasma concentration causing a relative increase in concentration of plasma proteins

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Starling forces in the peritubular capillaries favour what?

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Reabsorption

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What % of urea filtered at the glomerulus is reabsorbed in the tubule?

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50%

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What % of glucose filtered at the glomerulus is reabsorbed in the tubule?

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100% (normally)

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What % of water filtered at the glomerulus is reabsorbed in the tubule?

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99%

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What % of Na+ filtered at the glomerulus is reabsorbed in the tubule?

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99.5%

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What are the mechanisms of resorption?

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Carrier mediated transport systems

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What determines the maximum transport capacity of a substrate?

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Level of Saturation of the carriers

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If carriers are saturated, what happens to excess substrates?

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The excess enters the urine

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What happens when a substrate binds with a carrier protein?

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The carrier protein changes shape and the substrate leaves

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What is the renal threshold?

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Plasma threshold at which saturation occurs

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All glucose will be reabsorbed with glucose levels up to what?

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<10mmoles/l

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What happens when plasma glucose >10mmoles/l?

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Excess over 10 appears in the urine

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How much glucose will be secreted if [glucose] is 17.5mmoles/l?

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7.5mmoles

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What is normal plasma [glucose]?

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5mmoles/l

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Glycosuria is due to a failure in what?

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INSULIN

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What is the maximum transport capacity (Tm) of amino acids?

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High - regulated by insulin

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Why is the maximum transport capacity (Tm) of glucose so high?

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Because non-diabetic patients should never exceed 10mmoles/l

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What is the maximum transport capacity (Tm) of glucose?

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10mmoles/l

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How does maximum transport capacity (Tm) function to regulate substance concentrations?

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Tm is set at a level where normal [plasma] causes saturation

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What proportion of Na+ reabsorption occurs in the proximal tubule?

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65-75%

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How is Na+ reabsorbed?

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Active transport

ATP pumps

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Na+ ATP pumps are located where?
Basolateral surfaces of the tubule
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How do Na+ ions enter the tubule cell from the lumen?
Passively down the concentration gradient
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How do Na+ ions interstitial fluid from the tubule cell?
Na+K+ ATP pumps | Up the concentration gradient
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Why is Na+ able to penetrate the brush border membrane of the PCT so easily?
Microvilli on the surface and large number of Na+ ion channels
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How do negative ions cross the proximal tubular membrane?
Follow the electrical gradient established by the active transport of Na+
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What is the net effect of Na+ and Cl- leaving the tubule?
Osmotic force - water follows the ions out
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What is the net effect of water following ions out of the tubule?
Concentration of the substances left in the tubule
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How is Na+ reabsorbed?
Active transport
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How is H2O reabsorbed?
Osmosis
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How are permeable solutes reabsorbed?
Diffusion
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The rate of reabsorption of non-actively reabsorbed solutes depends on what?
Amount of H2O removed - determines extent of concentration gdt Permeability of the membrane to the solute
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How permeable to urea is the tubule membrane?
Moderately
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What process establishes the gradient for reabsorption?
Active transport of Sodium in the basolateral membrane
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Other than the generation of an osmotic gradient, why is the active transport of Na+ in the tubules important?
Na+ is essential for carrier mediated transport systems
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What is the effect of high tubule [Na+] on glucose?
Facilitated glucose reabsorption
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What is the effect of low tubule [Na+] on glucose?
Inhibition of glucose reabsorption
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Na+ reabsorption is linked to the reabsorption of what?
HCO3- Glucose Amino acids
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What transporter is used to take glucose from lumen → cell?
Sodium dependent glucose transporter
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What transporter is used to take glucose from cell → ISF?
GLUT facilitated diffusion
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What transporter is used to take Na+ from cell → ISF?
Na+/K+ ATPase
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How do protein-bound substances enter the lumen?
Peritubular capillaries → lumen | Tm-limited carrier mediated secretory mechanisms
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The Organic Acid mechanism is used to excrete what?
Lactic/uric acid Penicillin Aspirin Para-amino-hippuric acid
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Why are carrier mechanisms able to excrete exogenous substances?
They are not specific
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The Organic base mechanism is used to excrete what?
Choline, Creatinine Morphine Atropine
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Protein-bound substances are secreted where?
Proximal convoluted tubule
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What is the normal ECF [K+]?
4mmoles
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Hyperkalemia is defined as what?
>5.5mmoles/l
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Hypokalemia is defined as what?
<3.5mmoles/l
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How does hyperkalaemia cause injury?
Decrease in resting membrane potential --> ventricular fibrillation
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How does hypokalemia cause injury?
Increased resting membrane potential Hyperpolarised muscle Cardiac arrhythmia
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Where is the majority of K+ reabsorbed?
Proximal tubule
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Changes in K+ excretion are due to what?
Changes in secretion in the distal parts of the tubule
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Increased renal tubule cell [K+] will cause what?
Increased K+ secretion
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K+ secretion is regulated by what?
``` Adrenal cortex (Zona glomerulosa) ALDOSTERONE ```
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Increased Aldosterone causes what?
Stimulation to increase renal tubule cell K+ secretion | Na+ reabsorption at distal tubule
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H+ ions are secreted by what?
Actively secreted into the lumen by TUBULE CELLS
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Increased K+ causes what?
Increased plasma [K+] Increased aldosterone Increased K+ secretion Decreased [K+]

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