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Physiology 1
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Physiology
Undergraduate 3
08/02/2009

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1. What type of nephron lies mostly in the cortex?
Definition
cortical nephron
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2. What type of nephron lies mostly in the medulla?
Definition
juxtamedullary nephron
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3. What type of nephron is responsible for most regulatory functions?
Definition
cortical nephron
Term
4. What type of nephron is responsible for regulating the osmolarity of the blood?
Definition
juxtamedullary nephron
Term
5. What are the three processes needed to properly filter the blood and produce urine?
Definition
glomerular filtration, tubular reabsorption, and tubular secretion
Term
6. What is the fluid produced during glomerular filtration?
Definition
filtrate
Term
7. Will the filtrate in the glomerular capsule have RBCs, platelets, proteins and lipids in it?
Definition
no
Term
8. What is the term for a damaged nephron where large substances that should not leak out of the glomerulus do?
Definition
glomerulonephritis
Term
9. What is the condition where blood cells or proteins end up in the urine?
Definition
hematuria / proteinuria
Term
10. Which process is the SELECTIVE movement of filtrate from the renal tubule into the interstitial fluid, then into the blood?
Definition
tubular reabsorption
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11. Which process is the SELECTIVE movement of substances from the blood into the interstitial fluid, then into the renal tubule?
Definition
tubular secretion
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12. Are tubular reabsorption and tubular secretion aided by active or passive forces?
Definition
both active and passive
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13. How much of the cardiac output actually goes to the kidneys?
Definition
about 20% (renal fraction)
Term
14. Since the average cardiac ouput is 5,000 ml/min - what would be the average renal blood flow rate?
Definition
about 1,000 ml/min (500 ml/min to each kidney)
Term
15. If the amount of blood going to the kidneys is 1,000 ml/min - how much of that is plasma?
Definition
about 55% (100%-normal hematocrit)
Term
16. Knowing the average renal blood flow rate and the average hematocrit - what is the average renal plasma flow rate?
Definition
550 ml/min (225 ml/min each kidney)
Term
17. What % of the plasma going through the glomerulus is actually filtered to become filtrate?
Definition
20% (filtration fraction)
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18. What would equal the renal plasma flow rate x the filtration fraction?
Definition
the glomerular filtration rate (amount of plasma that becomes filtrate per minute)
Term
19. What is the average glomerular filtration rate?
Definition
110 ml/min (55 ml/min each kidney)
Term
20. About what % of all the filtrate produced goes back into the body (110 ml/min would add up to a lot in 1 day)?
Definition
about 99% goes back into the blood
Term
21. If you take all the forces that favor filtration and subtract all the forces that oppose filtration, what would you end up with?
Definition
the net filtration pressure
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22. What is the glomerular filtration rate proportional to (what could change it)?
Definition
the net filtration pressure
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23. What is the pressure that favors glomerular filtration?
Definition
glomerular hydrostatic pressure
Term
24. What are the pessures that oppose glomerular filtration?
Definition
plasma colloid osmotic pressure, and Bowman's capsule hydrostatic pressure
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25. What is the average net filtration pressure?
Definition
10 mmHg
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26. What type of pressure is due to the afferent arteriole being wider than the efferent arteriole, so the blood in the glomerulus exerts a force on the walls of the capillary?
Definition
glomerular hydrostatic pressure
Term
27. What type of pressure is due to the high concentration of substances in the blood that wants to draw fluid toward them?
Definition
plasma colloid osmotic pressure
Term
28. What type of pressure is due to the fluid in the glomerular capsule exerting a force on the capsule walls?
Definition
Bowman's capsule hydrostatic pressure
Term
29. Is the glomerulus highly permeable?
Definition
yes
Term
30. What type of regulation of glomerular filtration rate involves changing the degree of constriction of the afferent arteriole?
Definition
autoregulation
Term
39. What two things can cause the afferent arteriole to change it's radius?
Definition
blood pressure and filtrate flow
Term
40. What will happen to the afferent arteriole if there is an increase in systemic blood pressure?
Definition
it will constrict
Term
41. What will happen to the afferent arteriole if there is a decrease in systemic blood pressure?
Definition
it will dilate
Term
42. What will happen to the afferent arteriole if there is an increase in the rate of filtrate flow?
Definition
it will constrict
Term
43. What happens to renal blood flow and glomerular hydrostatic pressure when the afferent arteriole constricts?
Definition
decrease in renal blood flow and decrease in glomerular hydrostatic pressure
Term
44. What happens to renal blood flow and glomerular hydrostatic pressure when the afferent arteriole dilates?
Definition
increase in renal blood flow and increase in glomerular hydrostatic pressure
Term
45. Why regulate the radius of the afferent arteriole?
Definition
to maintain a constant glomerular filtration rate (GFR)
Term
46. Does the sympathetic nervous system affect the glomerular filtration rate?
Definition
yes (must be strong stimulus)
Term
47. What effect does the sympathetic nervous system have on the afferent arteriole?
Definition
constricts afferent arteriole (decrease renal blood flow and glomerular hydrostatic pressure)
Term
48. What happens to the GFR if renal blood flow and glomerular hydrostatic pressure decrease?
Definition
GFR decreases
Term
49. What happens to the GFR if renal blood flow and glomerular hydrostatic pressure increase?
Definition
GFR increases
Term
50. What is the process where water and solutes move from the renal tubule into the peritubular capillaries?
Definition
tubular reabsorption
Term
51. What 3 things enhance reabsorption in the peritubular capillaries?
Definition
capillaries are very permeable / colloid osmotic pressure is high in capillaries / hydrostatic pressure is low in capillaries
Term
52. What things are reabsorbed from the proximal tubule?
Definition
Na+ , Cl- , HCO3- , PO4-3 , Ca+2 , Mg+2 , amino acids, glucose, water
Term
53. Is the descending limb of the Loop of Henle permeable to water?
Definition
yes (highly permeable)
Term
54. Is the ascending limb of the Loop of Henle permeable to water?
Definition
NO
Term
55. What things are reabsorbed back into the blood in the ascending limb of the Loop of Henle?
Definition
Na+ , Cl- , HCO3- , Ca+2 , Mg+2 (same electrolytes as proximal tubule but no phosphate)
Term
56. What things are reabsorbed back into the blood from the distal convoluted tubule?
Definition
Na+ , Cl- , K+ , Ca+2 , Mg+2 , and water
Term
57. What things are reabsorbed back into the blood from the collecting duct?
Definition
Na+ , Cl- , HCO3- , K+ , Ca+2, urea, and water
Term
58. What two things are usually 100% reabsorbed?
Definition
glucose and HCO3-
Term
59. What two things are usually 99% reabsorbed?
Definition
Na+ and water
Term
60. What determines how much of substances are reabsorbed back into the body?
Definition
what body needs to meet setpoint levels
Term
61. What is the process where substances that were not filtered at the glomerulus are secreted into the renal tubule from the peritubular capillaries?
Definition
tubular secretion
Term
62. The organic anion transport that occurs in the proximal tubule transports certain acids (uric acid, bile salts, antibiotics, creatinine, drugs) in exchange for what other substance?
Definition
Na+
Term
63. What things are secreted from the blood into the proximal tubule?
Definition
organic acids, H+ , NH3+ (ammonia)
Term
64. What things are secreted from the blood into the distal tubule?
Definition
H+ , K+ , NH3+
Term
65. What things are secreted from the blood into the collecting duct?
Definition
H+ , K+ , NH3+ , and urea
Term
66. Where does the majority of ammonia (NH3+) secretion take place?
Definition
in distal convoluted tubule
Term
67. What is the only part of the nephron that is impermeable to water?
Definition
ascending limb of the Loop of Henle
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