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