Metabolism
The process of building larger molecules from smaller molecules.
What is anabolism?
The site of blood plasma filtration.
What is the renal corpuscle?
The region of the adrenal cortex that synthesizes aldosterone.
What is the zona glomerulosa?
The process by which water reabsorption occurs.
What is osmosis?
True or False: ADH works to concentrate the urine.
What is true?
Metabolic reaction that takes place if no oxygen is available.
What is anaerobic fermentation?
The two components of the juxtaglomerular apparatus.
What is the macula densa and the juxtaglomerular cells?
The effect that high sympathetic stimulation has on GFR.
What is decreased GFR?
The thin descending limb of the Loop of Henle is permeable to ____ and impermeable to ____.
What is (1) H2O, (2) solutes?
Caffeine works as a diuretic by _____.
What is inhibiting Na+ reabsorption?
The location of the citric acid cycle.
What is the mitochondrial matrix?
The two types of nephrons.
What is the cortical nephron and the juxtamedullary nephron.
The total pressure that promotes filtration.
What is net filtration pressure (NFP)?
Na+ symporters are a form of ______ transport.
What is secondary active?
The parasympathetic nervous system stimulates the contraction of ____ and relaxation of ____ in the bladder.
What is (1) detrusor muscle, (2) sphincter (both internal and external)?
The purpose of the electron transport chain.
What is finish oxidation and and produce most of the ATP of cellular respiration?
The structure that the major calyx drains into.
What is the renal pelvis?
Increased stretch in the afferent arteriole will result in ____ of the afferent arteriole.
What is vasoconstriction?
ADH, also known as ______, stimulates ____ water reabsorption.
What is (1) vasopressin, (2) facultative?
Mechanism that builds the osmotic gradient in interstitial fluid.
What is countercurrent multiplication?
The products of glycolysis.
What is 2 pyruvate, 2 NADH, and 2 net ATP.
Distinctive feature of the epithelium in the proximal convoluted tubule.
What is microvilli?
Decreased flow of Na+/Cl- by the ____ stimulates the release of ____ which causes _____ of the afferent arteriole.
What is (1) macula densa, (2) nitric oxide (NO), (3) vasodilation?
The late DCT responds to ____ which stimulates Na+ reabsorption and K+ secretion.
What is aldosterone?
Mechanism that allows nutrient delivery without "washing out" the osmotic gradient.
What is the countercurrent exchange?