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What is excreated at the Urea

Ammonia combined with carbon dioxide

What does nucleotide breakdown produce?

Uric acid

What condition can be caused by excess uric acid?

Gouts

What is Osmoregulation

Maintenance of appropriate levels of water and salt in the blood, Regulation of blood pressure, maintain appropriate levels of K, HCO, and Ca

How is the Acid-base balance kept?

Exretion of H, reabsorption of HCO

What is the hormone secretion path?

Renin --> Aldosterone --> Reabsorption of sodium (Na) by kidneys

What does the Erythropoietin do?

Stimulation of RBC production

Name 4 organs of the urinary system

Kidneys, ureters, urinary bladder, urethra

What do the kidneys look like and where are they?

Bean shaped organs near the back lumbar region

How are the kidneys protected?

By the lower rib cage and they are covered by the renal capsule

What is the Hilum

The depression where the renal artery enters, and the renal vein vein and ureter exits

What are ureters and where do they lead to?

Small muscular tubes that descend from the hilum to enter the bladder dorsally.

How do the ureters move fluid along?

Peristaltic contraction

Where the the urinary bladder located?

In the pelvic cavity behind public symphysis and peritoneum

What are some features of the urinary bladder?

Expandable walls, mucosa acts and valve, external and internal sphincters

What is the urethra?

Small tube that extends from bladder to an external opening

What is a nephron?

A basic functional unit of the kidney



What is the glomerulus?

Network of capillaries located at the beginning of a nephron

What are Podocytes?

Cells with long processes wrapped around the capillaries. Blood is filtered through slits between the processes or feet.

What is the Proximal convoluted tube (PCT)?

Fluid in the filtrate entering the PCT is reabsorbed into the peritubular capillaries

What does the PCT narrow?

When it reaches the loop of henle

What is the Distal convoluted tube?

Epithelial cells, with multiple mitochondria but no microvilli