Structures
How are the kidneys connected to your blood supply?
What is connecting to the circulatory system through the renal artery and vein?
What is the function of a glomerulus?
What is filtration?
What is the shape and colour of the kidney?
What is a bean-shaped, reddish brown organ?
How is the force within the glomerulus provided to move certain materials?
What is blood pressure?
What hormone helps control the balance of water and salts by keeping sodium and releasing potassium in the body?
What is the hormone aldosterone?
Where is the glomerulus located between?
Where is between the afferent and efferent arteriole?
What is the primary function of the ureters?
What is transporting the urine to the urinary bladder?
How many nephrons are found in the kidney?
How many is 1 million?
Why is the DCT not specialized for reabsorption?
What consists of numerous mitochondria but lack of microvilli?
Which hormone will the kidneys secrete to stimulate red blood cell production?
What is the hormone erythropoietin?
What are the PCT and DCT separated by?
What is the Loop of Henle?
What is something the collecting duct is responsible for?
What is collecting urine from the nephrons or the last opportunity to reabsorb water to concentrate the urine?
What is the meaning of “Glucose molecules are reabsorbed to threshold levels”?
What is the maximum rate of every substance of transport leading to any excess filtrate to appear in urine?
How do some materials move passively during selective reabsorption?
What is the reabsorption of NaCl increasing the osmolarity of the blood compared to the filtrate?
What hormone inhibits the secretion of renin in the juxtaglomerular apparatus and the secretion of aldosterone in the renal cortex?
What is the hormone ANH?
What tissue are the renal medullas composed of?
What are renal pyramids?
What is the primary function of the descending Loop of Henle?
What is the reabsorption of water by osmosis?
What substance is increasingly reabsorbed as blood pH decreases?
What are bicarbonate ions?
The filtrate becomes more diluted as it moves through the ascending Loop of Henle, why?
What is the permeability of the ascending Loop of Henle to water?
Drinking alcohol will cause the inhibition of which hormone?
What is the hormone ADH?
How do the kidneys maintain acid-base balance?
What is the secretion of hydrogen ions and reabsorption of bicarbonate ions.
What type of drugs inhibit active transport of sodium ions at the Loop of Henle or at the DCT to counteract high blood pressure?
What are diuretic drugs?
What are 2 ways UTI can be prevented?
What is drinking lots of water, urinating frequently or maintaining good hygiene?
What are both structures in which the hypertonic environment of the renal medulla promotes water reabsorption from?
What is the collecting duct and the descending Loop of Henle?
What hormone does the enzyme Renin change?
What is the hormone angiotensinogen to angiotensin 1?