Urinary System (nephron, renal corpuscle, podocyte)

Site where we filter blood

The nephron

Parietal layer of bowman's capsule is where? (Renal corpuscle)

The outside

Distal convoluted tubule (nephron)

"Quality and Assurance" of the kidney, looks at urine and decides if it needs to be "tweaked"

Vascular pole contains what? (Renal corpuscle)

Afferent artery, glomerulus, efferent artery

Vascular pole (renal corpuscle)

Blood supply coming into bowman's capsule

First part where filtration takes place (nephron)

Bowman's capsule

What makes up the nephron?

Bowman's capsule, proximal convoluted tubule, distal convoluted tubule, loop of Henle

What's in between the visceral and parietal layers? (Renal corpuscle)

Bowman's space

Renal corpuscle is made up of a ________called the _______ and ___________.

Capillary, glomerulus, bowman's capsule

Bowman's capsule function (nephron)

Catches what the glomerulus doesn't get

Collecting duct

End of the nephron process

If albumen or RBC in urine means what? (Renal corpuscle)

Filtration slit have been opened up for some reason

Urinary system is made up of

Kidney, ureter, bladder, urethra

Filtration slit does what? (Renal corpuscle)

Limits what can leave the plasma and keeps WBC/RBC and proteins in the blood

The _____is the functional unit of the kidney

Nephron

Glomerulus function (nephron)

Network of "Capillary"

Visceral layer (inside) of bowman's capsule is made up of _____. (Renal corpuscle)

Podocytes

Proximal convulated tubule function (nephron)

Reabsorption or pulling all the "good" out of the blood

Capillary endothelium (renal corpuscle)

Simple squamous

Parietal layer is made up of what? (Renal corpuscle)

Simple squamous epithelium

Loop of Henle function (nephron)

Water absorption