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Renal Anatomy and Physiology

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Process of moving unwanted substances from blood into urine.
This common substance inhibits the release of the water absorption hormone.
Water channel in plasma membrane that accentuates rapid water reabsorption.
Fancy name for urination.
Activates angiotensinogen.
This is found at the transition point between the ascending limb of the nephron loop and the distal tubule; tightly packed group of cells.
Type of osmotic pressure created by the presence of proteins.
Less numerous type of nephron.
Fancy name for kidney stone formation.
Net difference in hydrostatic and osmotic forces across glomerular membrane that favors filtration. Abbreviation
This type of pressure is the actual force of fluid on a capillary.
At transport maximum, glucose that cannot be further transported will be found in this.
Glucose and amino acids utilize this cellular route. Exits cell through basolateral membrane.
Hormone responsible for accentuated water absorption. Abbreviation.
This carbonic compound converts carbonic acid to Co2 and water.
Name of an atrial peptide, released when atrial pressure is unnaturally increased.
In renal blood supply,this artery is found after the renal artery and before the interlobar.
Mineralcorticoid that increases sodium absorption.
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Evaluation tool given by measuring the rate at which the kidneys remove a substance from the blood is called renal ________.
Primary process performed by the nephron is blood filtering. This is called what type of filtration?
Systemic condition that occurs if the kidneys do not adequately filter blood.
Type of pump that moves two substances in the opposite direction.
Inner striated region of the kidney.
The medullary osmotic gradient is maintained by this system mechanism; fluids in opposite directions.
About 75-80% of these nephrons are called this type.
Name of arteriole that feeds a glomerulus.
Once in the tubule cell, glucose is transported via this type of diffusion.
In the nephron, the visceral layer these are modified epithelial cells that envelop the glomerular capillaries.
In many capillaries,, this type has pores that render them more leaky.
The thin region of the descending tubule tends to be this with regards to water.
JG cells release this substance.
The quantity of filtrate formed by both kidneys in 1 minute is called this; Abbreviation.
A complex system whose main function is to maintain systemic blood pressure, and tends to preserve the GFR Abbreviation.