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What is the body's ability to produce glucose from non-glucose material?   gluconeogenesis  
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What two hormones do the kidneys produce?   renin (inc. BP) and epo (new RBC)  
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What organ produces renin? What does it do?   kidney. Raises BP.  
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What organ produces epo?What does it do?   kidney. Manufactures RBC  
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What is different about the right kidney   lower than the left  
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What sits atop the kidneys   adrenals  
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What are the layers of protective tissues of the kidneys - inner to outermost   fibrous capsule, perirenal fat capsule, renal fascia (dense fibrous)  
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Innermost protective layer of tissue of the kidney   fibrous capsule  
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middle layer of protecdtive tissue of the kidney   perirenal fat capsule  
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outermost layer odf tissue of protective tissue   renal fascia  
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what holds the kidneys in place   renal fascia  
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the renal sinus holds what   the capillaries, lymph vessels, and ureter  
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what cushions the kidney   perirenal fat capsule  
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Where is the urine formed?   renal pyramid (then drains to minor calyx)  
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inflammation of renal pelvis and minor/major calyx?   pyelitis  
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inflammation of the entire kidney   pyelonephritis  
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what is the functional unit of the urinary system   nephron  
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how many nephron would you find in each kidney   1,000,000 in each  
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When does filtrate change into urine?   when it is dumped into the collecting duct  
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When filtrate leaves the blood where does it go   Bowman's capsule  
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Is filtration from the glomerulus to the bowman's capsule specific? What can/can't get in?   Not specific--- blood and large plasma proteins can't get in  
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85% or nephrons are what kind   cortical the other 15% are juxtameduallary  
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name the 2 types of nephrons   cortical and juxtamedullary  
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What returns the 'good stuff' to the body   efferent arteriole --> becomes peritubular capillary  
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the vasa recta is a part of what and what is its job   it is a oart of the peritubular capillary. It keeps the kidneys isotonic. It supplies nutrients and O2 iwthinthe medulla in longest loop of Henle. Imperitive in cinserving salt  
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What structure is imperative in conserving salt   vasa recta - 12% solute  
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Once fluid leaves the Bowman's capsule is it called   filtrate  
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what is the pressure in the glomerulus   55 mg hg  
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what is the osmotic pressure (push out)   30 mg hg  
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what is the capsular pressure   15mg hg  
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Where is the 'good stuff' filtered   tubular reabsorption  
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what happend in the first step of urine production (glomerular filtration)   glomerular filtration is non specific  
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what happens in the second step of urine formation   tubular reabsorption separates the good stuff from the bad - reabsorbs good - bad to collecting duct  
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what happens in the third step of urine production - where dies it happen   distal convoluted tubule - H ions and drugs (penn, Pheno) are excreted  
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the higher the glomerular filtration rate-->   the faster the flow into the Bwman's capsule  
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what fine tunes how much urine formation and filtrate is formed?   Glomerular filtration  
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Name the two intrinsic controls of glomerular filtration   myogenic mechanism - glom tries to keep is at 10 mg hg and tubuloglomerular feedback mech. - resp to NaCl concentration in filtrate. When GFR inc, insuff time for NaCl reasborb, macula densa prod ATP, vasodilator, aff. art. constrict, turn off faucet  
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what intrinsic mechanism will raise glomerular hydrostatic pressure   myogenic mechanism - smooth muscle surrounding afferent arterioles-> raise glom. hydrostatic pressure - tries to maintain 10 mg hg  
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What intrinsic control tries to maintain 10 mg hg   myogenic mechanisn  
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what intrinsic control responds to NaCl in filtrate   tubuloglomular feedback mechanism  
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If net filtration decreases, will sodium increase or decrease and what will the macula densa do   If net filtration rate decreases, sodium will decrease and macula densa will turn off production of ATP (vasodilator). Afferent arterioles will dilate and glom will receive more filtrate and more NaCl  
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Name two extrinsic controls   sympathetic (NE and Epi) and renin (angiotensin mech)  
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What happens when we are in an emer?   Ne and epi are released--. afferent arterioles lower amt of blood to glom....decreased filtrate formation--.trips renin angio mech--. stim macula densa  
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what does renin do and where is it formed   kidneys - renin-angiotensin mech. powerful vasoconstrictor;absorb sodium, retain waterm prod of adh, makes thirsty  
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what gets into the bowman's capsule?   everything-except blood and proteins  
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where does most absorption occur?   proximal convoluted tubule  
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what is absorbed in the proximal convoluted tubule   glucose, amino acids, hormone molecules  
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what escapes the descending loop of henle   water  
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what escapes the ascending loop of henle   salt  
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what does the distal convoluted tubule take care of filtering   hydrogen ions, potassium ions, immonium ions, creatinine, penn, pheno  
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What are the layers of the ureters   mucose, musularis, and adventitia  
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What is the most abundant extracellular anion   chlorine Cl-  
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What is the most abundant extracellular cation   NaCl sodium  
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What is the most abundant intracellular cation   potassium K+  
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What is the most abundant anion   anionic protein A-  
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The most abundant cellular cation   calcium  
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kidnys filter how much filtrate a day   200 liters  
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what is the major excretory organ   kidneys  
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***kidneys do what three things -produce/met   produce epo, renin and metaboilze vit D to active form  
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Urinary system includes   ureters, kidneys, bladder and urethra  
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3 layers of Supportive tissue of kidney   fibrous capsule, perirenal fat capsule and renal fascia  
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how many lobes does the kidney have   8  
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where are the renal pyramids found   renal medulla  
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what collects urine   calyces  
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what drains urine, emptying it into renal pelvis   papillae  
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what forms urine   nephrons  
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how does urine reach the urethra   peristalsis  
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What is the structural and functional unit of the kidney   nephron  
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parietal layer of the bowman's capsule is made of   simple squamous epi - for easy osmosis  
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podocytes are found of what layer of the bowman's capsule   visceral layer  
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proximal convulted tubule are made of   cuboidal epithelial  
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Loop of Henli is made of   thin - simp squam; thick - cuboidal  
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cortical nephrons make up what percentage of nephrons in the kidney   85%  
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what feeds the glomerulus   afferent arteriole, efferent drains it  
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peritubule captillaries arise from what   efferent arteriole draining glomeruli  
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what forms concentrated urine   vasa recta  
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what produces filtrate   glomerulus  
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how many capillary beds are there what separates them   two - efferent arteriole  
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group of chemoreceptors in the loop of Henle that respond to changes in the NaCl concentration of filtrate   macula densa  
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Is glomerular filtration passive or active   passive - no ATP  
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forces fluid and solutes thru membrane   hydrostatic pressure in glomerular filtration  
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What cells release rennin   granular cells  
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PTH acts on   ca  
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aldosterone works on   Na+  
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ADH works on   water (filtrate)  
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What must the distal convoluted tubule and the collecting duct must be influenced by what hormone in order to be permeable to water   ADH  
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distal convoluter tubule will absorb what   Na and Cl  
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If you have high extracellular fluid you would be ocncerned about what and what would be released by the adrenal cortex   hperkalemia-->the adrenal cortex would release aldosterone - renin/andiotensin mechanism - targets collecting ducts to open  
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aldosterone targets the collecting ducts to   open - conserve Na+  
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atrial naturic peptide   reduces BP, decreases blood volume  
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Tubular secretion releases what   H+, K, NH4+, creatinine, and organic acids (both filtered and excreted substances)  
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filtrate loses ___ but not ___   salt, but not water; so it becomes increasingly dilute at DCT it reaches 100 Osms  
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What prevents against rapid removal of salt   vasa recta  
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inhibits urine output   ADH, produces concentrated urine  
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If you sweat or become dehydrated you will produce what hormone and will produce what kind of urine   ADH - concentrated  
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Urine is slightly base/acidic   acidic - pH 6  
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Specific gravity of urine is   1  
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Ureter wall three layers   mucosa, muscularis, adventitia  
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bladder's 3 layers   mucosa, detrusor muscle, adventitia  
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mucosal lining of urethra is made of   pseudostratified columnar epithelium --->becomes transitional  
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contraction of internal urethral sphincter does what   opens it - relaxation of int. ure. sphincter shuts it  
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young adults are what % water   50%  
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Infants are what % water   73% - low bone mass  
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Healthy young man is what % water   60%  
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Electrolytes come about by what process   ionization  
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what do we call the water loss when we swet all the time and don't know it and breath vapor from exhalation   insensible water loss  
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what is sensible water loss   urine formation  
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what is between the renal pyramids and communicates betweenthe medlla and the cortex   renal columns  
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what supplies blood to the kidneys   renal arteries  
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where does glomerular filtration take place   between glomerulus and Bowman's capsule  
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Sympathetic nervous sys slows/speeds urine formation   slows  
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where does most reabsorption occur   proximal convoluted tubule  
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where does tubular secretion happen and what happens there   distal convoluted tubule -0 penn, phenobarbitol, excess H+, ammonium ions, adn potassium ions  
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Does ADH get rid of or conserve water   conserve  
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thirsst center is in the   hypothalamus  
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water formed when you burn glucose for energy   water of oxidation  
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need to make urine whether hurt or thirsty   obligatory water loss  
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low fluid intake , hypothalamus wil prod   ADH so kidtubules will reabsorb H2O  
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high fluid intake, hypothalamus will   turn off ASH prod, tubules less permeable, H2O excreted in urine  
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hypotonic hydration has same s/s as   hyponatremia  
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