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Aquaporins are believed to be present in red blood cells and kidney tubules but very few other cells in the body?
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What are common ailments of the kidney?
Kidney stones. Kidney failure.
What organ maintains the water and solute homeostasis?
The liver maintains water and electrolyte balance of the blood.
How does the kidney helps in controlling the concentration of substance?
The kidney is a filter system for the blood. If the concentration of a substance is too high (i.e. there are drugs in the blood), then the kidney filters all of that out of the blood to form urine.
What type of problem most commonly affects the urinary system organs?
There are several different types of kidney disease. These include inflammation of the filtering parts of the kidney (called glomerulonephritis), polycystic kidney disease, an inherited genetic disorder where the kidney tissues become replaced by cysts, and scarring of the kidney tissues caused by backflow of the urine from the bladder (called reflux nephropathy), which is caused by structural defects. Diabetic kidney disease which damages the kidneys' filtering membranes, and kidney disease due to high blood pressure are other forms of kidney disease
Why do you think protein in the urine is a sign of kidney damage?
The kidney is "designed" to 1) not leak proteins and 2) to reabsorb any that do get into the urine.
Explain Why fluid flows from the capillaries of the kidneys into the kidney tubules?
because the fluid pressure in the capillaries is higher than that of kidney tubules
What tubules make up the kidney?
Nephrons
What is the degeneration of kidney tubules called?
Nephrosis
Where are all the proximal and distal convoluted tubules of the kidney located?
If you are talking about the proximal/distal convoluted tubules. Then you are talking about a kidney, and in between them is the nephron loop or the Loop of Henle
What structure of kidney contains the collecting tubules?
medulla
Is water moved from the kidney tubules into the blood by osmosis?
yes it does
What is the medical term meaning degeneration of the kidney tubules?
Nephrosis
Is simple cuboidal found lining kidney tubules?
Yes
What is tubular kidney disease?
Tubular kidney disease-- Disease of the kidney that affect the tubules, the part of the kidney that allows certain substances to be reabsorbed back into the blood
Are aquaporins in all parts of the body?
They are found on the surface of eukaryotic cells
What does the medullla in the kidney do?
the renal medulla contains capillaries and urine forming tubules
Lines kidney tubules and ducts of salivary glands?
simple cuboidal epithelium
