Renal System Flashcards
6 key functions of the renal system
- Regulation of extra cellular fluid volume and blood pressure
- Regulation of osmolarity
- Maintenance of ion balance
- Homeostatic regulation of PH
- Excretion of wastes
- Production of hormones
Starting at the kidneys follow a drop of urine to the external and environment
Nephron–> Ureter–> urinary bladder–>urethra–> external environment
The medulla a is the _________and the cortex is the _________of the kidney
Inner
Outer
What is nephron
The functional unit of the kidney consisting of one million microscope pick tubules divided into sections containing specialized blood vessels
Approximately how many nephrons are there in one kidney
One million
Trace a drop of blood through the nephron from a renal artery to a renal vein
Renal artery–> arcuate artery–>afferent arterioles–>glomerulus–> efferent arteriole–>peritubular capillaries aka vasa recta–>venules–>small vein–>renal vein
What urine formation step takes place at the glomerulus
Filtration
What are the structures of the Renal tubules
Bowman’s capsule, Proximal tubule, Loop of Henle, Distal tubule, Collecting duct
Name the 3 processes of the urine formation
Filtration, Re absorption, Secretion
Filtration
Movement of fluid from blood into the lumen of nephron. Takes place in the Renal corpuscle. Filtration occurs from capillaries of glomerulus to Bowman’s capsule. Filtration is via bulk flow.
Reabsorption
The process of moving substances in the filtrate from lumen of tubule back into the blood flowing through Peritubular capillaries. Uses membrane proteins to move molecules across the tubule epithelium.
Secretion
Selectively removes molecules from blood and adds them to the filtrate in the tubule lumen. Fluid entering the body’s external environment
How much plasma is filtered per day by the kidneys
180 L/day
How much urine leaves the body per day
1.5 L/day
Compare a cortical nephron to a juxtamedullary nephron
Cortical nephrons are located on the outer layer of the kidney and juxtamedullary nephrons dip down into the medulla or inner layer of the kidney.
What happens to the fluid that does not leave in the urine
It returns to circulation
Fluid leaving the Bowman’s capsule is nearly__________ with plasma
Isosmotic
At the end of the proximal tubule_____% Of the filtered fluid remains in the tubule. The osmolarity of this fluid is______mOsM. Based on these #s, it is said that the proximal tubule is the primary site for production of ________ urine
30% (70% of the volume is reabsorbed)
300
Reabsorption
Fluid leaving the loop of Henle is usually ________ to plasma, so it is said that the loop is a primary site for production of __________ urine
Hyposmotic
Dilute
By the end of the collecting duct, the fluid in the tubule has a volume of _______ L/day and an osmolarity that can range from________ to________. Both the volume and the osmolarity of urine depend on the bodies need to conserve or excrete ________ and __________
1.5
50 to 1200
Water and solute
What percent of the plasma volume that enters the glomerulus is actually filtered
20%
How much of the filtered plasma that enters the glomerulus becomes urine and is excreted
<1%
List the layers of the filtration membrane
Capillary endothelium, Basement membrane, Epithelium of Bowman’s capsule
Capillary endothelium
It has fenestrated capillaries with large pores that allow most components of plasma to filter through. The luminal surface of capillary and pores are lined with glyco proteins that are negatively charged to repel negatively charged plasma proteins and prevent blood cells from leaving capillary
Basement membrane
A cellular layer of extra cellular matrix that separates that capillary endothelium from epithelium of Bowman’s capsule. It consists of negatively charged glyco proteins, collagen and and other proteins excluding most plasma proteins from the fluid that filters through it
Epithelium of Bowman’s capsule
Consist of podcytes surrounding each glomerular capillary with their foot processes wraping around capillary and interlacing with one another, and with narrow filtration slits
The driving force for glomerular filtration is
Hydrostatic pressure provided by blood pressure
The hydrostatic pressure of blood forces fluid out through
Leaky endothelium of capillaries
What is the name of the pressure inside glomerular capillaries that is higher than that of fluid within the Bowman’s capsule
Colloid pressure
The hydrostatic pressure of the glomerulus is
55 mmHg
The HP of the glomerulus creates a force that __________ fluid movement into Bowmans capsule and _________ filtration
Enhances
Enhances
The HP of the Bowman space is__________ mmHg. This force __________ fluid movement into the capsule
15 mmHg
Opposes