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The Urinary System Overview of Kidney Functions
The Urinary System Overview of Kidney Functions
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Blood & Nerve Supply of Kidney
• Abundantly supplied with blood vessels
– receive 25% of resting cardiac output via renal arteries
• Functions of different capillary beds
– glomerular capillaries where filtration of blood occurs
• vasoconstriction & vasodilation of afferent & efferent
arterioles produce large changes in renal filtration
– peritubular capillaries that carry away reabsorbed
substances from filtrate
– vasa recta supplies nutrients to medulla without
disrupting its osmolarity form
• Sympathetic vasomotor nerves regulate blood flow
& renal resistance by altering arterioles
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Juxtamedullary Nephron
Histology of the Nephron & Collecting Duct
• Single layer of
epithelial cells forms
walls of entire tube
• Distinctive features
due to function of
each region
– microvilli
– cuboidal versus
• 15-20% of nephrons are juxtamedullary nephrons simple
• Renal corpuscles close to medulla and long loops of Henle extend – hormone receptors
into deepest medulla enabling excretion of dilute or concentrated
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Overview of Renal Physiology Overview of Renal Physiology
• Nephrons and collecting ducts perform 3 basic
processes
– glomerular filtration
• a portion of the blood plasma is filtered into the kidney
– tubular reabsorption
• water & useful substances are reabsorbed into the blood
– tubular secretion
• wastes are removed from the blood & secreted into urine
• Rate of excretion of any substance is its rate of
filtration, plus its rate of secretion, minus its rate of
reabsorption • 1. Glomerular filtration of plasma
• 2. Tubular reabsorption
• 3. Tubular secretion
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Renal Autoregulation of GFR Neural Regulation of GFR
• Mechanisms that maintain a constant GFR despite • Blood vessels of the kidney are supplied by sympathetic
changes in arterial BP fibers that cause vasoconstriction of afferent arterioles
– myogenic mechanism • At rest, renal BV are maximally dilated because sympathetic
• systemic increases in BP, stretch the afferent arteriole activity is minimal
• smooth muscle contraction reduces the diameter of the – renal autoregulation prevails
arteriole returning the GFR to its previous level in seconds • With moderate sympathetic stimulation, both afferent &
– tubuloglomerular feedback efferent arterioles constrict equally
• elevated systemic BP raises the GFR so that fluid flows too – decreasing GFR equally
rapidly through the renal tubule & Na+, Cl- and water are
• With extreme sympathetic stimulation (exercise or
not reabsorbed
hemorrhage), vasoconstriction of afferent arterioles reduces
• macula densa detects that difference & releases a
vasoconstrictor from the juxtaglomerular apparatus GFR
• afferent arterioles constrict & reduce GFR – lowers urine output & permits blood flow to other tissues
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Reabsorption in the PCT
Glucosuria • Na+ symporters help
reabsorb materials from
• Renal symporters can not reabsorb glucose fast the tubular filtrate
enough if blood glucose level is above 200 mg/mL • Glucose, amino acids,
– some glucose remains in the urine (glucosuria) lactic acid, water-soluble
vitamins and other
• Common cause is diabetes mellitis because insulin nutrients are completely
activity is deficient and blood sugar is too high reabsorbed in the first half
• Rare genetic disorder produces defect in symporter of the proximal convoluted
that reduces its effectiveness tubule
• Intracellular sodium levels
are kept low due to Na+/K+
pump
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Reabsorption of Bicarbonate, Na+ & H+ Ions Passive Reabsorption in the 2nd Half of PCT
• Na+ antiporters reabsorb Na+ • Electrochemical gradients
and secrete H+ produced by symporters
– PCT cells produce the H+ & & antiporters causes
release bicarbonate ion to the passive reabsorption of
peritubular capillaries other solutes
– important buffering system • Cl-, K+, Ca+2, Mg+2 and
• For every H+ secreted into the urea passively diffuse
into the peritubular
tubular fluid, one filtered
capillaries
bicarbonate eventually returns
to the blood • Promotes osmosis in PCT
(especially permeable due
to aquaporin-1 channels
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Symporters in the Loop of Henle
• Thick limb of loop of Reabsorption in the DCT
Henle has Na+ K- Cl-
symporters that reabsorb • Removal of Na+ and Cl- continues in the DCT by
these ions means of Na+ Cl- symporters
• K+ leaks through K+ • Na+ and Cl- then reabsorbed into peritubular
channels back into the capillaries
tubular fluid leaving the
interstitial fluid and blood • DCT is major site where parathyroid hormone
with a negative charge stimulates reabsorption of Ca+2
• Cations passively move to – DCT is not very permeable to water so it is not
the vasa recta reabsorbed with little accompanying water
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Antidiuretic Hormone
(ADH) Production of Dilute or Concentrated Urine
• Increases water permeability of
principal cells so regulates • Homeostasis of body fluids despite variable
facultative water reabsorption by... fluid intake
• Stimulates the insertion of • Kidneys regulate water loss in urine
aquaporin-2 channels into the
membrane • ADH controls whether dilute or concentrated
– water molecules move more urine is formed
rapidly – if lacking, urine contains high ratio of water to
• When osmolarity of plasma & solutes
interstitial fluid decreases, more
ADH is secreted and facultative
water reabsorption increases.
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Countercurrent Mechanism
Diuretics
• Descending limb is very permeable to water
– higher osmolarity of interstitial fluid outside the • Substances that slow renal reabsorption of
descending limb causes water to mover out of the tubule water & cause diuresis (increased urine flow
by osmosis rate)
• at hairpin turn, osmolarity can reach 1200 mOsm/liter – caffeine which inhibits Na+ reabsorption
• Ascending limb is impermeable to water, but – alcohol which inhibits secretion of ADH
symporters remove Na+ and Cl- so osmolarity drops – prescription medicines can act on the PCT, loop
to 100 mOsm/liter, but less urine is left of Henle or DCT
• Vasa recta blood flowing in opposite directions than
the loop of Henle -- provides nutrients & O2 without
affecting osmolarity of interstitial fluid
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We are done.
The Test is Coming!
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