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        | How much blood is filtered daily by the Kidneys? |  | Definition 
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        | What type of things leave the body in urine |  | Definition 
 
        | Toxins, metabolic wastes, and excess ions |  | 
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        | What are the three major functions of the kidneys |  | Definition 
 
        | Filter Regulate volume and chemical makeup
 Maintain proper balance between water and salts, acids and bases.
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        | Gluconeogenesis in the kidneys is the breakdown of glycogen to create glucose. |  | 
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        | What is produced by the kidneys which helps to regulate blood pressure |  | Definition 
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        | What is produced by the kidneys which helps to stimulate RBC production. |  | Definition 
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        | Vitamin D3- the active form of Vitamin D |  | 
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        | Urea makes up what percentage of the bodies nitrogenous wastes 
 What is it produced from?
 
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        | 50% 
 protein catabolism
 
 Liver
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        | How is Uric acid produced |  | Definition 
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        | How is creatinine produced |  | Definition 
 
        | metabolism of creatine phosphate |  | 
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        | What is BUN 
 What are the normal values?
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        | Blood Urea Nitrogen 
 6-18 mg/dl
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        | Along with Renin, what also helps to regulate bp |  | Definition 
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        | waste that our body produces |  | 
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        | The functional unit of a kidney |  | 
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        | What does retroperitoneal refer to? |  | Definition 
 
        | The position of the kidneys behind the liver. |  | 
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        | What part of the kidney leads to the renal sinus |  | Definition 
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        | Where do ureters, renal blood vessels, lyphatics and nerves enter and exit the kidneys |  | Definition 
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        | What is the function of the paired ureters |  | Definition 
 
        | transport urine from the kidneys to the bladder |  | 
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        | What is the function of the bladder |  | Definition 
 
        | provides a temporary storage reservoir for urine |  | 
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        | What is the function of the urethra |  | Definition 
 
        | transports urine from the bladder out of the body |  | 
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        | Function of the renal capsule |  | Definition 
 
        | fibrous capsule that prevents kidney infection |  | 
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        | Function of Adipose capsule |  | Definition 
 
        | fatty mass that cushions the kidney and helps attack it to the body wall |  | 
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        | outer layer of dense fibrous connective tissue that anchors the kidney |  | 
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        | the light colored granular superficial region |  | 
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        | exibits cone shaped medullary pyramids separated by columns |  | 
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        | What constitutes a lobe in the medulla |  | Definition 
 
        | the medullary pyramid and its surrounding capsule |  | 
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        | flat funnel shaped tube lateral to the hilus within the renal sinus |  | 
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        | What is the Major calyces |  | Definition 
 
        | large branches of the renal pelvis |  | 
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        | Function of the Major calyces |  | Definition 
 
        | collect urine draining from papillae 
 empty urine into the pelvis
 
 From the pelvis it drains to the bladder through the ureters
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        | How much blood flows through the kidneys each minute? |  | Definition 
 
        | one fourth (1200 ml) of systemic cardiac output |  | 
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        | Arterial flow into and out of the kidneys (venous and arteriole) follow similar or different pathways. |  | Definition 
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        | What is the functional unit of the kidney |  | Definition 
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        | What is responsible for forming urine |  | Definition 
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        | How many nephrons per kidney |  | Definition 
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        | a long tube with associated blood vessels |  | 
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        | What are the two parts of a nephron |  | Definition 
 
        | Renal corpuscle 
 Renal tubule
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        | What does the renal corpuscle function as |  | Definition 
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        | What  does the renal tubule function as |  | Definition 
 
        | processes filtrate into urine |  | 
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        | What does afferent refer to |  | Definition 
 
        | something going into 
 entering
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        | a tuft of capillaries associated with a renal tubule |  | 
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        | What is another term for glomerular capsule |  | Definition 
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        | What is the Glomerular capsule |  | Definition 
 
        | blind cup-shaped end of a renal tubule that completely surrounds the glomerulus |  | 
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        | What is glomerular endothelium |  | Definition 
 
        | fenestrated epithelium that allows solute rich virtually protein free filtrate to pass from the blood into the glomerular capsule. |  | 
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        | What is larger in the kidneys Afferent or Efferent vessels |  | Definition 
 
        | Afferent.... the vessels that allow the entry of things. |  | 
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        | How big are the endothelium fenestrations |  | Definition 
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        | What is the filtration membrane made up of |  | Definition 
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        | send out finger like projections called pedicels |  | 
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        | fingerlike projections sent out from a podocyte |  | 
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        | What do pedicytes wrap around |  | Definition 
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        | What is the basement membrane made out of |  | Definition 
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