BIOL 2160 Study Guide - Final Guide: Ureter, Sepsis, Urethra

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THE URINARY SYSTEM CHAPTERS 1-1
1. Kidneys
a. Main kidney functions
i. Primarily responsible for maintaining stability of ECF volume, electrolyte
composition, and osmolarity
ii. Main route for eliminating potentially toxic metabolic wastes and foreign
compounds from the body
b. Importance of kidneys
i. Kidneys filter out toxins in the blood
ii. If kideys do’t ok die because kidneys cannot filter blood (sepsis)
2. Overview of Kidney Functions
a. Maintain H2O balance in the body
b. Maintain proper osmolarity of body fluids, primarily through regulating H2O balance
c. Regulate the quantity and concentration of most ECF ions
d. Maintain proper plasma volume
i. When you are dehydrated, you lose water from your blood
ii. Pope plasa akes sue lood is’t too thik o thi
e. Help maintain proper acid-base balance in the body
i. Proper pH: cells have to function at certain pH
f. Excreting (eliminating) the end products (wastes) of bodily metabolism
3. Urinary System
a. Consists of
i. Urine forming organs
1. kidneys
ii. Structures that carry urine from the kidneys to the outside for elimination from
the body
1. Ureters: hollow tubes that come from kidney and attaches to urinary
bladder
2. Urinary bladder: stores urine
a. Prevents going to the bathroom constantly
b. Storage makes it possible to not pee often
3. Urethra
a. Tube that leads to the outside of the body
4. Ureters
a. Smooth muscle-walled duct
b. Exit each kidney and carry urine to the urinary bladder
5. Urinary Bladder
a. Temporarily stores urine
b. Hollow, distensible, smooth muscle-walled sac
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c. Periodically empties to the outside of the body through the
urethra
4. Urethra
a. Conveys urine to the outside of the body
b. Urethra is straight and short in females
c. In males
i. Much longer and follows curving course from bladder to outside
ii. Dual function
1. Provides route for eliminating urine from bladder
2. Passageway for semen from reproductive organs
5. Nephron
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a. Nephrons:
i. Two main components:
1. Yellow: tubular (carries urine)
a. Comes out as urine
b. Hollow, fluid-filled tube formed by a single layer of epithelial
cells (very leaky- moves back and forth between blood)
c. Components:
i. Boa’s apsule: surrounds glomerulus
ii. Proximal tubule: close
iii. Loop of Henle
1. Descending limb
2. Ascending limb
iv. Distal tubule: far
v. Collecting duct or tubule
2. Purple: capillaries (vascular component)
a. Stays in body
b. Dominant part is the glomerulus
i. Ball of capillaries (large surface area)
ii. Water and solutes are filtered through glomerulus as
blood passes through it
c. Blood goes into glomerulus at beginning of nephron
6. Basic Renal Processes
a. Glomerular filtration
i. 80% is unfiltered
ii. 20% is filtered
iii. Filters 20% at a time takes time to
complete filtration for all blood
b. Tubular reabsorption
i. Reabsorption into the blood
ii. Leaving TUBE going to BLOOD
c. Tubular secretion
i. Things leaving BLOOD and going into
the TUBE
d. Concentration
i. Prevents dehydration
ii. Saves water
e. Urine results from these four processes
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The urinary system chapters 1(cid:1012)-1(cid:1013: kidneys, main kidney functions, primarily responsible for maintaining stability of ecf volume, electrolyte composition, and osmolarity, main route for eliminating potentially toxic metabolic wastes and foreign compounds from the body. Filtrate, which will become urine, is formed in this process: tubular re-absorption. Involves the transfer of substances from tubular lumen into peritubular capillaries: highly selective and variable process. Plays tole in reabsorbing glucose, amino acids, h2o, cl-, and urea. Plays (cid:272)(cid:396)iti(cid:272)al (cid:396)ole i(cid:374) kid(cid:374)eys" a(cid:271)ility to produce urine of varying concentrations. Variable and subject to hormonal control; plays role in regulating ecf volume. As filtrate flows down, water leaves the tubule as the osmolarity of the extracellular fluid increases. Loss of water increases the osmolarity of the filtrate. At the bottom of the loop, the concentration of the filtrate and the extracellular fluid is equal (1200 mosm): ascending limb is impermeable to water, but permeable to nacl.

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