3.7 homeostasis and kidney
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Define homeostasis.
The maintenance of a constant internal environment.
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Define negative feedback.
A change triggers a response that reverses the change.
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What is excretion?
The removal of metabolic waste from the body.
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Where is urea produced?
In the liver via the ornithine cycle.
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What is the functional unit of the kidney?
The nephron.
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Define ultrafiltration.
Filtration under high pressure in the Bowman’s capsule.
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How is high pressure created in the glomerulus?
The afferent arteriole is wider than the efferent arteriole.
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What is the basement membrane?
A molecular filter preventing proteins and blood cells entering the filtrate.
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What are podocytes?
Cells in the Bowman’s capsule with filtration slits.
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Where does selective reabsorption occur?
The proximal convoluted tubule (PCT).
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Name three substances reabsorbed in the PCT.
All glucose, all amino acids, and some salts and water.
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How are PCT cells adapted?
They have microvilli and many mitochondria.
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Why might glucose be present in urine?
Blood glucose exceeds the renal threshold.
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What is the function of the Loop of Henle?
To create a low water potential in the medulla.
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Define counter-current multiplier.
The mechanism that builds up a salt gradient in the medulla.
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What hormone controls water reabsorption?
ADH.
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Where is ADH produced and released?
Produced in the hypothalamus and released from the posterior pituitary.
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How does ADH work?
It increases collecting duct permeability by adding aquaporins.
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What is osmoregulation?
Control of the water potential of blood and body fluids.
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What nitrogenous waste do birds excrete?
Uric acid.
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Why do desert animals have longer Loops of Henle?
To conserve more water by producing concentrated urine.
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What is haemodialysis?
Filtering blood using an external machine.
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What is the composition of dialysis fluid?
Normal glucose and salt levels but no urea.
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What is the role of the vasa recta?
To maintain the medullary gradient.
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What is deamination?
The removal of the amino group from an amino acid.
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Name a metabolic waste product other than urea.
Carbon dioxide or creatinine.
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What happens to urine volume when ADH is high?
Urine volume decreases and concentration increases.
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What are aquaporins?
Water channel proteins.
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Where are osmoreceptors located?
In the hypothalamus.
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Why do kidney transplant patients take immunosuppressants?
To prevent organ rejection.
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