Urinary tract histology introduction

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Which structures make contraction (out going pre-urine) possible in the glomerulus vascular ball? (verbeteren dit)

Podocytes
endothelial cells
GBM

What is the function of the urinary system?

  • Remove waste products
  • regulate balance between water and electrolytes (blood pressure)
  • regulate pH of the blood (acid-base balance)
  • secretion of various hormones
    • Renin: blood pressure (renin-angiotensin-aldosterone-system, RAAS)
    • Erytrhopoietin (EPO): erythrocyte production

Of what cells does the renal body consist?

  • Podocytes
  • Endothelial cell
  • Mesangial cell
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What structure is the 'filter' of the kidney?

The glomerulus with it's fenestrated capillaries covered with the many projections of podocytes.


Pre-urine end up in Bowmans space and goes toward the proximal convoluted tubule (PCT)

kidney filters blood 60x a day
not everything of this goes to urethra (resorption)

What about the proximal convoluted tubule?

  • Reabsorption
    • nutrients
    • proteins
    • water + electrolytes


  • But also secretion
    • bile salts
    • creatinine
    • ammonia


lot of mitochondria

What about the Distal convoluted tubule?

  • Reabsorption
    • electrolytes
  • Juxtaglomerular apparatus around/at edge of  distal tuble near the afferent pole

RAS blood pressure regulation

(see notes kidney animal physiology)

What about the collecting duct?

  • In the cortex and medulla
  • ADH increase water reabsorption for more concentrated urine.

Filtrate urine route and link between blood

  • Collecting ducts converge in renal Pelvis
  • via ureters to bladder -> storage
  • export via urethra
  • hypertonic fluid -> special protecting epithelial layer

Of what does the Urothelium/transitional epithelium consist?

  • Basal layer
  • intermediate layer (few cells thick, cuboidal to  columnar)
  • superficial layer with big umbrella cells
    • specialized cells
    • aimed to protect underlying cells against the cytotoxic effects of hypertonic urine.

Of what three layers does the bladder consist?

Urothelium
muscle layer
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