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15 Cards in this Set
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What is the basic functional unit of the kidney
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Nephron
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Approximately how many nephrons is each human kidney made of
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1 million
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What are the key parts of the nephron
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Glomerulus and the tubules
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What is at the head of each nephron and is a cup shaped membrane
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Bowman's capsule
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What holds the entering blood capillary and its clump of smaller vessels
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Bowman's capsule
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Within bowman's capsule, the afferent srteriole branches into a cluster of capillaries to form what
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Glomerulus
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The rate at which clood is filtered through the glomerus is called what
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Glomerular Filtration Rate (GFR)
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Chronic Kidney Disease is defined as a GFR of less than
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60 mL/min for 3 or more months
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Choronic Kidney Disease is defined as a uninary albumin-to-creatine ratio of more than
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30 mg/g
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From the cupped head of each nephron a small what carries the filtered fluid through its winding pathway and empties into the central area of the kidney medulla
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Tubule
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Where is most of the needed nutrients reabsorbed in this first part of the tubule and returned to the blood
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Proximal Tuble
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The tuble's midsection narrows and dips down into the central part of the kidney
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Loop of Henle
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What happens in the loop of Henle
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Important exchange of sodium, chrloride and water occurs
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The latter part of the tuble winds back up into the outter area of the kidney cortex
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Distal Tubule
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That happens in the Distal Tubule
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