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| How much blood is filtered daily by the Kidneys? |
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| What type of things leave the body in urine |
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| Toxins, metabolic wastes, and excess ions |
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| What are the three major functions of the kidneys |
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Filter
Regulate volume and chemical makeup
Maintain proper balance between water and salts, acids and bases. |
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| Gluconeogenesis in the kidneys is the breakdown of glycogen to create glucose. |
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| What is produced by the kidneys which helps to regulate blood pressure |
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| What is produced by the kidneys which helps to stimulate RBC production. |
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| Vitamin D3- the active form of Vitamin D |
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Urea makes up what percentage of the bodies nitrogenous wastes
What is it produced from?
Where |
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50%
protein catabolism
Liver |
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| How is Uric acid produced |
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| How is creatinine produced |
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| metabolism of creatine phosphate |
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What is BUN
What are the normal values? |
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Blood Urea Nitrogen
6-18 mg/dl |
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| Along with Renin, what also helps to regulate bp |
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| waste that our body produces |
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| The functional unit of a kidney |
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| What does retroperitoneal refer to? |
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| The position of the kidneys behind the liver. |
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| What part of the kidney leads to the renal sinus |
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| Where do ureters, renal blood vessels, lyphatics and nerves enter and exit the kidneys |
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| What is the function of the paired ureters |
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| transport urine from the kidneys to the bladder |
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| What is the function of the bladder |
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| provides a temporary storage reservoir for urine |
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| What is the function of the urethra |
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| transports urine from the bladder out of the body |
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| Function of the renal capsule |
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Definition
| fibrous capsule that prevents kidney infection |
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| Function of Adipose capsule |
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| fatty mass that cushions the kidney and helps attack it to the body wall |
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| outer layer of dense fibrous connective tissue that anchors the kidney |
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| the light colored granular superficial region |
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| exibits cone shaped medullary pyramids separated by columns |
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| What constitutes a lobe in the medulla |
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| the medullary pyramid and its surrounding capsule |
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| flat funnel shaped tube lateral to the hilus within the renal sinus |
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| What is the Major calyces |
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| large branches of the renal pelvis |
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| Function of the Major calyces |
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collect urine draining from papillae
empty urine into the pelvis
From the pelvis it drains to the bladder through the ureters |
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| How much blood flows through the kidneys each minute? |
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| one fourth (1200 ml) of systemic cardiac output |
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| Arterial flow into and out of the kidneys (venous and arteriole) follow similar or different pathways. |
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| What is the functional unit of the kidney |
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| What is responsible for forming urine |
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| How many nephrons per kidney |
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| a long tube with associated blood vessels |
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| What are the two parts of a nephron |
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Definition
Renal corpuscle
Renal tubule |
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| What does the renal corpuscle function as |
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Definition
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| What does the renal tubule function as |
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| processes filtrate into urine |
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| What does afferent refer to |
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something going into
entering |
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| a tuft of capillaries associated with a renal tubule |
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| What is another term for glomerular capsule |
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| What is the Glomerular capsule |
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| blind cup-shaped end of a renal tubule that completely surrounds the glomerulus |
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| What is glomerular endothelium |
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| fenestrated epithelium that allows solute rich virtually protein free filtrate to pass from the blood into the glomerular capsule. |
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| What is larger in the kidneys Afferent or Efferent vessels |
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| Afferent.... the vessels that allow the entry of things. |
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| How big are the endothelium fenestrations |
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| What is the filtration membrane made up of |
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| send out finger like projections called pedicels |
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| fingerlike projections sent out from a podocyte |
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| What do pedicytes wrap around |
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| What is the basement membrane made out of |
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