Nephron
What is the filtering or functional unit of the kidneys?
Nephron
What are two treatment options for kidney failure?
Dialysis or kidney transplant
What is the form of waste produced in the kidneys?
Urine
What are two vessels that bring blood into the liver?
Hepatic artery and hepatic portal vein
Where does filtration take place?
Glomerulus into Bowman’s capsule
Compare the amount of urea, salt, and water leaving the kidney to the blood entering a kidney.
Lowered amounts
What is the structure that carries the waste from the kidney to the urinary bladder?
Ureter
What is the cause of jaundice in newborns?
Liver is not fully capable of processing bilirubin
Where are fenestrations located?
Glomerulus walls
What is the outermost layer of the kidney?
Cortex
What is the structure that carries the waste from the bladder and out of the body?
Urethra
Name two functions of the liver.
Detoxification, stabilization of nutrients, maintaining glucose levels, recycling components of erythrocytes and hemoglobin, making bile, produces plasma proteins, converting extra cholesterol to bile salts
What substances are secreted into the distal convoluted tubules?
Toxins and waste
Name three things that can be tested for in urinalysis.
Glucose, blood cells, proteins, drugs
What is the structure that holds urine until it is excreted from the body?
Urinary bladder
What cells in the liver use phagocytosis to remove old erythrocytes from the blood?
Kupffer cells
What part does ADH act upon to control reabsorption of water?
Collecting duct
Name of the vessel that transports nutrients and wastes into the kidney.
Renal artery
What section of the kidney that receives the urine from the collecting ducts?
Renal pelvis
Name three nutrients that are stored in the liver.
Glycogen, iron, vitamin A, vitamin D