Urinary System

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What are the specific functions of the urinary system?

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remove metabolic waste of blood,recover water and useful solutes,promote red blood cell production, synthesis glucose

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What are the structures that make up the urinary system?

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Adrenal gland, left kidney, abdominal aorta, inferior vena cava, ureter, urinary bladder

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What is the kidney's role in the urinary system?

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Kidney's remove waste from the blood by forming urine

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What is a nephron?

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Functional units in the kidney, consisting of a glomerulus and its associated tubule, through these strucutures, glomerular filtrate passes through before emerging as urine.

Nephrons filter blood and produce urine

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What are the components of the nephron?

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Renal corpuscle, Proximal convoluted tubule, distal convoluted tubal, loop of Henley-both descending and ascending loops, collecting duct (can help withdehydration)

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What are the 3 main parts to the nephron?

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Renalcorpuscle, renal tubule, blood vessels of nephron

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What is the renal corpuscle?

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Structure where blood is filtered

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What is the renal tubule?

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Structure where blood is processed into urine

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What is the function of the blood vessels in the nephron?

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Deliver blood to nephrons so that it can be filtered and to absorb any desirable molecules eg water, also to remove waste

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The renal corpuscle is made up of 2 main parts. What are they? What do they do?

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Glomerulus and glomerular capsule (bowmans capsule) Glomerulus-A cluster of capillaries,Glomerular (Bowman’s) Capsule-2 layered epithelial membrane that lines theglomerulus

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What is the key role of the renal corpuscle?

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Filter blood through filtration membrane

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The filtration membrane is made up of 3 layers. What are these

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Epithelial cells in capillaries of glomerulus, basement membrane, cells of visceral layer of glomerulus which cover glomerular capsule

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What does the basement membrane look like?

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Mesh panel like structure covering capillaries

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Which layer is the podocyte located in?

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Glomeruler capsule-located in visceral layer

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What are the three main sections of the renal tubule?

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Proximal convoluted tubule, distal convoluted tubule, Loops of Henley

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What is the proximal convoluted tubercle lined with?

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Cubodial epithelial tissue

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What does the proximal CT do?

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Absorbsmost of the water and up to 100% of solutes so you don’t end up urinatingbuckets of urine

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The upper section of the loop of Henley is made up of cuboidal epithelial? T OR F?

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True

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The lower section of the loop of Henley is made up of cuboidal epithelial?

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Falseit’s made up of squamous epithelial

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The loop of Henley has an important function. What is it and why is it important?

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Establishesa salt gradient concentration in the medulla, important for hydration- when you’redehydrated you’re trying to retain as much water as possible

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The distal convoluted tubercle has capacity to switch on a certain hormone thatstimulates water reabsorption? What is this hormone called?

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Anti-diuretic hormone

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What are the key functions of the nephron?

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Filtration of blood, reabsorption of useful materials from blood, secretion of wastes intourine

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Whatis the process involved in the glomerular filtration

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Fluid filtered from blood enters the spaceenclosed by two layers of glomerular capsule- cells and large molecules such asprotein are retained in blood protein

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How does tubular reabsorption work to produce urine?

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Through osmosis, diffusion and active transport, selected molecules are reabsorbed in renal tubercle

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Does most reabsorption occur in the proximal convoluted tubercle? T OR F?

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TBH IT'S TRUE

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Where does the rest of re absorption occur?

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Loop of Henley

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Which osmotic region of the kidney maintains a high salt concentration? Medulla or Cortex?

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Medulla

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The anti-diuretic hormone is released by the pituitary gland.What does thishormone aim to do?

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Stimulatescells of distal convoluted tubercle and collects ducts to increase WATER poresin cell membranes

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Where is ADH made?

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In the hypothalmus

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Glomerulus is found in the nephron? What is it?

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Glomerulus is a network of capillaries located at the beginning of a nephron in the kidney. Serves as the first stage in the filtering process of the blood carried out by the nephron in its formation of urine.