Lecture Exam
What are the three ways PH is regulated in the body? - correct answer ?
How do the kidneys function to combat acidosis? - correct answer ?
Describe the equation for net filtration pressure? - correct answer
Describe the pressures that drive and reduce the glomerular filtration rate? - correct answer net
filtration pressure drives it.
How does blood flow to the following region the body? Brain, skin, kidney, Gi and skeletal muscle -
correct answer ?
Once feedback comes into action, what happens to feedforward? - correct answer ?
Why is tubular reabsorption important for the body? - correct answer bring nutrients back to the
body.
What is insensible water loss? - correct answer ?
Describe the trend cellular and paracellular routs that molecules take during tubular reabsorption? -
correct answer transcellular means it is going through the cell via membrane transporters on the
apical side of the cell, then they will get pumped out by membrane transporters of the lateral side of the
cell.
paracellular route have leaky cell junctions (also counts of reabsorption.)
What is the range of osmolarity in the renal medulla and what is an osmolarity gradient? - correct
answer ?