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Anatomy of kidney

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Lobe: a pyramid + associated cortex

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Describe the arteries of the kidney

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  • Renal artery enters the kidney and divides into segmental arteries
  • Interlobar arteries between the lobes
  • Arcuate arteries run on the horizontal aspect of the lobes, between cortex and medulla
  • Interlobular artery betwen the lobules.
  • Afferent arterioles is where the blood enters the glomerulus (loose not of capillaries) for filtration
  • Efferent arterial network (where nutrients get reabsorbed):
    • Peritubular capillaries in the cortical nephron
    • Vasa recta capillaries in the medulla
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Renal corpuscles vs Nephron

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  • Renal corpuscle (red blob)
    • Glomerular capsule: podocytes, parietal epithelium, urinary space
    • Glomerulus: fenestrated capillaries, arterioles, mesangial cells
    • Filtration apparatus: fenestrated endothelium, basal lamina, filtration slits between pedicles
  • Nephon (bigger circles)
    • renal corpuscle
    • proximal tubule
    • loop of Henle
    • distal tubule
    • collecting tubule/duct
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Describe the venous system of hte kidney

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Interlobular

  • > arcuate
  • > interlobar
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Functions of the kidney

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  • Remove cellular wastes from the blood
    • Filtration, selective reabsorption of water and solutes, excretion of wastes & excess water
  • Regulates blood pressure
  • Regulates cid-base balance
  • Produce hormones (e.g. Epo)
  • Assists in vitamin D production
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Are renal corpuscles in the cortex or medulla?

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  • Cortex
    • Renal corpuscles
    • Convoluted tubules, straight tubules, collecting tubules
  • Medulla
    • Collecting ducts
    • Straight tubules
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Lobe vs Lobule

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  • Lobe: pyramid + associated cortical tissue
  • Lobule: medullar ray (collection of straight tubules in cortex) + associated cortical tissue
  • Nephron: functional unit of the kidney
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How to find a lobule on a histology slide?

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  • First find the medullary ray (in the middle)
  • Then find an interlobular artery (blue arrow)
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Wheres the medullary ray?

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What is the bottom blue arrow pointing to in this singular lobe?

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Arcuate artery because it’s between the cortex (left arrow) and the medulla (right arrow)

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Wheres the medulla?

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Where the rays are draining into

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Identify a lobule

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The white blood vessels in the cortex are interlobular arteries. the distances between two of them that contain a medullar ray are a lobule (horizontal line)

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Point out the arcuate artery

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between cortex and medulla

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the glomerular capsule has how many layers of epithelial cells?

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two.

Parietal layer (yellow) is simple squamous epithelium.

Visceral layer (yellow on the glomerulus) is a podocyte, which has a lot of processes that divide into pedicles that wrap around the capillaries, forming a filtration barrier.

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What kind of capillaries make up the glomerulus?

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fenestrated

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Glomerular Mesangial cells

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Pericytes associated with the endothelial cells; they turn over basal lamina, control capillary diameter, secrete vasoactive compounds.

Only podocytes’ foot processes actually attach to the capillary; whereas, mesangial cells do share a basal lamina w it.

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How can you differentiate betwen proximal and distal tubule cells on a slide?

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Proximal tubule cells are thicker and taller cells than the distal, which are smaller and flatter.

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How do collecting ducts appear in the medulla?

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The cells’ nuclei don’t have a consistent color; it’s light and dark, kinda alternating

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Podocytes

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  • visceral epithelial cells of Bowman’s capsule
  • pedicles/foot processes of podocytes with filtration slits
  • synthesizes nephrin
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Two poles of a renal corpuscle

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Urinary pole (lighter): filtrate leaves glomerulus and leaves via this pole to the proximal convoluted tubule

Vascular pole (darker) blood comes in, leaves via efferent arteriole

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Describe the layers of the filtration apparatus

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  • Fenestrated endothelium
    • Only proteins that can pass are albumin and anything smaller than that
  • Glomeruluar basement membrane
    • ​collagen IV*
    • fibronectin, laminin, heparin sulfate
    • charge barrier against anions
  • Podocytic filtration slits between podocyte processes (pedicles)
    • nephrin-containing diaphragms
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Which side is the urinary space and which side is the capillary? How do you know?

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  • Podocytes project into the urinary space and are grounded to a nephrin-containing diaphragm (the right blue arrow)
  • Fenestrae (the left blue arrow) belong to the capillary side
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Congenital nephrotic syndrome

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Mutation in nephrin –> absence / malfunction of the podocyte’s slit filtration diaphragm

  • Proteinuria, hypoalbuminemia, hyperlipidemia, edema
    • Low albumin in your blood –> less osmotic pressure –> edema
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Alport’s syndrome / Hereditary glomerulonephritis

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Gene for collagen IV is faulty

  • proteinuria
  • RBCs in urine
  • thinner glomerular basement membrane
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Describe the passage of filtrate from blood capillaries in the glomerulus through the filtration apparatus
1. Fenestration 2. Basal lamina of endothelial cell and the podocyte 3. Filtration slit of the podocyte 4. Filtration diaphragm of podocyte 5. Bowman's space
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What cell's nucleus is this?
Podocyte. You can see its pedicles sent to the capillary
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What cell's nucleus is the bottom blue arrow pointing to?
**Mesangial cell.** Unlike podocytes, the nucleus is actually within the basement membrane
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The bottom right is the most abnormal: the **pedicles** are weird and meshed together, which would block filtration
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the proximal straight tubule is also known as
the thick limb of the descending loop of henle
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Characteristics of proximal tubules on a slide
* In **renal cortex** or **medullary ray** * **Simple cuboidal** cells with brush border (for reabsorption) & microvilli * **Luminal debris** * **Indistinct cellular outlines** due ot numerous infoldings of plasma membrane * **Eosinophilic** bc mitochondria
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What happens in the proximal tubule?
Reabsorb 60-65% of water via passive diffusion Reabsorb ions, amino acids, glucose
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What is this an EM of?
Proximal tubule because * microvilli * mitochondria * membrane infoldings
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Luminal proteins are absorbed via
endocytosis to form endosomes and lysosomes
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Polycystic Kidney Disease
**Cysts from nephrons grow and** **compress interstitial tissue** * Enlargement of kidney --\> back pain * High blood pressure * Renal failure -\> decreased RBCs -\> anemia * Complications: infection of cysts, renal stones
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Erythropoietin is a ___ hormone produced by ___ in the kidney in close association with the __ and \_\_
**glycoprotein hormone** produced by **interstitial fibroblasts** in close association w **peritubular capillary and proximal convoluted tubule**
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**1-alpha hydroxylase** What part of the kidney produces and processes it? What is it important for?
**Proximal tubules** **Performs Vitamin D hydroxylation** (25-OH-D3 to 1,25(OH)D3) in the mitochondria of proximal tubule cells; turns pro-vitamin D into its active form
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What symptom will result from decreased vitamin D production in patients with CKD or end-stage kidney disease since the proximal tubules can't make 1-alpha hydroxylase?
Osteoporosis
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What is the funciton of activated vitamin D?
* Activates bone osteoblasts * Causes Ca2+ absorption in intestine to help bone mineralization
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Identifying the loop of Henle
* Located primarily in **medulla** and also in **inner cortex** * **Simple squamous\* epithelia** * Differentiated from capillaries (vasa recta) by the absence of blood cells
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Sodium pumps in the cell membranes of the ___ limb of the loop of Henle pumps sodium _into/out of_ the tubule?
Sodium pumps in the **thick ascending limb** pump Na+ **out of the tubule**
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After \_\_\_\_\_, all water and ion regulation is determined by hormonal action
After **loop of Henle**
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Distal tubule identification
* Located in **renal cortex & medullary rays** * **Simple cuboidal** (brush border not visible) * **Smaller, flatter (nuclei closer together)** than PCT * **Fewer and smaller microvilli** * Membrane infoldings * Little luminal debris * Indistinct cellular outlines due to infolding sof plasma membrane * Eosinophilic bc mitochondria Compare the top arrow (PCT) to the bottom arrow (DCT)
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What are each these EM slides of?
The left is an EM of PCT because the mcirovilli are long and therse a lot of vesicles The right is an EM of DCT becuase the microvilli are sparse
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The flow of filtrate in nephron is regulated according to..
* the speed and concentration of **sodium** in the returning flow in the distal tubule
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Describe the juxtaglomerular apparatus: macula densa cells, JG cells, extraglomerular mesangial cells
* **Macula densa cells** in the DCT epithelium can sense sodium concentration in the DCT * Ex) If it senses a high [NaCl], then that means the flow of the filtrate is too fast because more NaCl should have been rebasorbed earlier. * Sends signals to **juxtaglomerular cells**: smooth muscle cells in the walls of the **afferent arterioles** to release vasoconstrictors or vasodilators * **Extraglomerular mesangial cells** are outside the renal corpuscle
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Which arteriole does the macula densa associate with- afferent or efferent? Why?
**Afferent arteriole**
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In this photo of a DCT, which cells are the macula densa cells? What is that pink triangle in the center?
The ones at the bottom (more columnar) are the macula densa cells The pink triangle in the center are extraglomerular mesangial cells
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Idnetify the macula densa, the arteriole, and the extraglomerular mesangial cells and a podocyte.
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How does the juxtaglomerular apparatus respond when there is a **decrease** in renal perfusion (e.g. hypovolemia or hypotension)?
1. **Juxtaglomerular cells** release **renin**, which will turn angiotensinogen to angiotensin I 2. **ACE** (in lung and kidney) will turn angiotensin I to angiotensin II 3. **Angiotensin II** will cause water & salt retention to increase the effective circulating volume --\> increased perfusion of the juxtaglomerular apparatus * Increase sympathetic activity (general vasoconstriction) * Increase NaCl & H2O retention via * Aldosterone for NaCl & H2O retention * ADH from pituitary for H2O reabsorption in the collecting duct * Increase K+ excretion * Arteriole vasoconstriction
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Effects of angiotensin II
* Increase sympathetic activity (general vasoconstriction) * Increase NaCl & H2O retention via * Aldosterone for NaCl & H2O retention * ADH from pituitary for H2O reabsorption in the collecting duct * Increase K+ excretion * Arteriole vasoconstriction
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How to identify collecting tubules and ducts
* **Simple cuboidal** (gets taller approaching the papilla) * **Light-staining principal cells** w ADH-regulated aquaporins * **Dark-staining intercalated cells** secrete H+ and absorb HCO3- * Much fewer than the light-staining; may not even be present * Cellular outlines are clear
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ADH is produced by ___ and affects \_\_\_
Produced by **posterior pituitary gland** Affects the **principal cells of the** **late** **distal tubule** & **collecting duct** to increase water reabsorption
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Label these
**1: collecting duct** * nothing in it * cuboidal * clear cell borders **2: loop of henle** * nothing in it * simple squamous **3: capillary**
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If the right side is a calyx and we magnified right in the center of this image, what would we see?
**Renal papilla**: projects into the calyx; large collecting ducts of Bellini (green arrows) open into the surface of the renal papilla.
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3 most common causes of kidney disease
* **Diabetic nephropathy**: damage to glomerular filtration barrier due to excessive sugar entering urine * **Hypertensive nephropathy**: sclerosis of glomerular arterial wall * **Glomerulonephritis**: inflammation of glomerulus leading to nephrotic or nephritic syndrome
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Alport syndrome
* **Genetic mutation in collagen type IV** synthesis --\> **glomerular basement membrane is thin and leaky,** allowing **blood and protein in the urine** * Type IV collagen is also in the eye and ear
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Goodpasture syndrome
Antibodies to type IV collagen affects basement membrane in the lung * Cough, chest pain, shortness of breath * Blood & protein in urine * High blood prssure
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What is urothelium? Where do you find it?
**Transitional epithelium** surrounded by **smooth muscle + connective tissue** ## Footnote Found in **ureter, urinary bladder, urethra** **Luminal** epithelial layer of urothelium consists of **umbrella cells**
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Purpose of umbrella cells
Forms a seal of uroplatin protein so urine does not enter the tissue Senses distension
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What is the middle arrow pointing at? What is the big arrow outside pointing at?
The middle arrow: lamina propria Big arrow: 2 layers of smooth muscle (circular & longitudinal for peristalsis)
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Bladder on a slide
looks pretty similar to ureter, except its not in a perfectly enclosed star shape
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Contrast the female vs male urethra
* Female * Shorter, * Covered in urothelium, but transitions to nonkeratinized stratified squamous as you get more external * Male * Longer * 3 types: * Prostatic * Membranous * Penile urethra * Also stratified squamous as it approaches the external surface

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