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Chapter 23
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The Urinary System
• Functions of urinary system
• Anatomy of kidney
• Urine formation
– glomerular filtration
– tubular reabsorption
– tubular secretion
• Urine and renal function tests
• Urine storage and elimination
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Urinary System
Two kidneys
Two ureters
Urethra
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Kidney Location
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Kidney Functions
• Filters blood plasma
– returns useful substances to blood
– eliminates waste
• Regulates
– osmolarity of body fluids, blood volume, BP
– acid base balance
• Secretes
– renin and erythropoietin
• Detoxifies free radicals and drugs
• Gluconeogenesis
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Nitrogenous Wastes
• Urea
– proteinsamino acids NH2
removed forms ammonia, liver
converts to urea
• Uric acid
– nucleic acid catabolism
• Creatinine
– creatine phosphate catabolism
• Renal failure
– azotemia: BUN, nitrogenous
wastes in blood
– uremia: toxic effects as wastes
accumulate
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Excretion
• Separation of wastes from body fluids and
eliminating them; by four systems
– respiratory: CO2
– integumentary: water, salts, lactic acid, urea
– digestive: water, salts, CO2, lipids, bile
pigments, cholesterol
– urinary: many metabolic wastes, toxins,
drugs, hormones, salts, H+ and water
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Anatomy of Kidney
• Position, weight and size
– retroperitoneal, level of T12 to L3
– about 160 g each
– about size of a bar of soap (12x6x3 cm)
• Shape
– lateral surface - convex; medial - concave
• CT coverings
– renal fascia: binds to abdominal wall
– adipose capsule: cushions kidney
– renal capsule: encloses kidney like cellophane
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Anatomy of Kidney
• Renal cortex: outer 1 cm
• Renal medulla: renal columns, pyramids - papilla
• Lobe of kidney: pyramid and it’s overlying cortex
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Lobe of Kidney
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Renal Corpuscle
consists of glomerulus and glomerular capsule
(Bowman’s capsule)
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Renal (Uriniferous) Tubule
• Proximal convoluted
tubule (PCT)
– longest, most coiled,
simple cuboidal with
brush border
• Nephron loop - U
shaped; descending
and ascending limbs
– thick segment
(simple cuboidal)
initial part of
descending limb and
part or all of
ascending limb,
active transport of
salts
– thin segment (simple
squamous) very
water permeable
• Distal convoluted
tubule (DCT)
– cuboidal, minimal
microvilli
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Renal (Uriniferous) Tubule 2
• Collecting duct
– several DCT’s join
• Flow of glomerular
filtrate:
– glomerular capsule
PCT nephron
loop DCT
collecting duct
papillary duct
minor calyx
major calyx renal
pelvis ureter
urinary bladder
urethra
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Nephrons
• True proportions of nephron
loops to convoluted tubules
shown
• Cortical nephrons (85%)
– short nephron loops
– efferent arterioles branch off
peritubular capillaries
• Juxtamedullary nephrons
(15%)
– very long nephron loops,
maintain salt gradient, helps
conserve water
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Nephron Diagram
• Peritubular capillaries shown only on right
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Path of Blood Through Kidney
• Renal artery
interlobar arteries (up renal columns, between lobes)
arcuate arteries (over pyramids)
interlobular arteries (up into cortex)
afferent arterioles
glomerulus (cluster of capillaries)
efferent arterioles (near medulla vasa recta)
peritubular capillaries
interlobular veins arcuate veins interlobar veins
• Renal vein
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Blood Supply Diagram
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Urine Formation Preview
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Filtration Membrane Diagram
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Filtration Membrane
• Fenestrated endothelium
– 70-90nm pores exclude blood
cells
• Basement membrane
– proteoglycan gel, negative
charge excludes molecules >
8nm
– blood plasma 7% protein,
glomerular filtrate 0.03%
• Filtration slits
– podocyte arms have pedicels
with negatively charged filtration
slits, allow particles < 3nm to
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Filtration Pressure
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Glomerular Filtration Rate (GFR)
• Filtrate formed per minute
• GFR = NFP x Kf 125 ml/min or 180 L/day,
• GFR = NFP x Kf 105 ml/min or 150 L/day,
male
female
– filtration coefficient (Kf) depends on permeability and
surface area of filtration barrier
• 99% of filtrate reabsorbed, 1 to 2 L urine
excreted
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Effects of GFR Abnormalities
• GFR, urine output rises dehydration,
electrolyte depletion
• GFR wastes reabsorbed (azotemia
possible)
• GFR controlled by adjusting glomerular
blood pressure
– autoregulation
– sympathetic control
– hormonal mechanism: renin and angiotensin
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Juxtaglomerular Apparatus
- vasomotion
- monitor salinity
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Renal Autoregulation of GFR
• BP constrict
afferent arteriole, dilate
efferent
• BP dilate afferent
arteriole, constrict
efferent
• Stable for BP range of
80 to 170 mmHg
(systolic)
• Cannot compensate for
extreme BP
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Renal Autoregulation of GFR
• Myogenic mechanism
– BP stretches afferent arteriole afferent
arteriole constricts restores GFR
• Tubuloglomerular feedback
– Macula densa on DCT monitors tubular fluid
and signals juxtaglomerular cells (smooth muscle,
surrounds afferent arteriole) to constrict afferent
arteriole to GFR
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Negative Feedback Control of GFR
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Sympathetic Control of GFR
• Strenuous exercise or acute conditions
(circulatory shock) stimulate afferent
arterioles to constrict
• GFR and urine production, redirecting
blood flow to heart, brain and skeletal
muscles
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Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone
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Effects of Angiotensin II
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Tubular Reabsorption and Secretion
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Peritubular Capillaries
• Blood has unusually high COP here, and
BHP is only 8 mm Hg (or lower when
constricted by angiotensin II); this favors
reabsorption
• Water absorbed by osmosis and carries
other solutes with it (solvent drag)
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Proximal Convoluted Tubules (PCT)
• Reabsorbs 65% of GF to peritubular capillaries
• Great length, prominent microvilli and abundant
mitochondria for active transport
• Reabsorbs greater variety of chemicals than
other parts of nephron
– transcellular route - through epithelial cells of PCT
– paracellular route - between epithelial cells of PCT
• Transport maximum: when transport proteins of cell
membrane are saturated; blood glucose > 220 mg/dL
some remains in urine (glycosuria); glucose Tm = 320
mg/min
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Mechanisms of Reabsorption in the Proximal Convoluted Tubule
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Tubular Secretion of PCT
and Nephron Loop
• Waste removal
– urea, uric acid, bile salts, ammonia,
catecholamines, many drugs
• Acid-base balance
– secretion of hydrogen and bicarbonate ions
regulates pH of body fluids
• Primary function of nephron loop
– water conservation
– generates salinity gradient, allows CD to conc.
urine
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– also involved in electrolyte reabsorption
DCT and Collecting Duct
• Principal cells – receptors for hormones;
involved in salt/water balance
• Intercalated cells – involved in acid/base
balance
• Function
– fluid reabsorption here is variable, regulated
by hormonal action
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DCT and Collecting Duct
• Aldosterone effects
– BP renin release angiotensin II
formation
– angiotensin II stimulates adrenal cortex
– adrenal cortex secretes aldosterone
• promotes Na+ reabsorption promotes water
reabsorption urine volume maintains BP
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DCT and Collecting Duct
• Effect of ADH
– dehydration stimulates hypothalamus
– hypothalamus stimulates posterior pituitary
– posterior pituitary releases ADH
– ADH water reabsorption
– urine volume
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DCT and Collecting Duct
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Atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP)
– atria secrete ANP in response to BP
– has four actions:
1. dilates afferent arteriole, constricts efferent
arteriole - GFR
2. inhibits renin/angiotensin/aldosterone
pathway
3. inhibits secretion and action of ADH
4. inhibits NaCl reabsorption
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Promotes Na+ and water excretion,
urine volume, blood volume and BP
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DCT and Collecting Duct
• Effect of PTH
– calcium reabsorption in DCT - blood Ca2+
– phosphate excretion in PCT, new bone
formation
– stimulates kidney production of calcitriol
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Collecting Duct Concentrates
Urine
• Osmolarity 4x as concentrated
deep in medulla
• Medullary portion of CD is more
permeable to water than to NaCl
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Control of Water Loss
• Producing hypotonic urine
– NaCl reabsorbed by cortical CD
– water remains in urine
• Producing hypertonic urine
– dehydration ADH aquaporin
channels, CD’s water permeability
– more water is reabsorbed
– urine is more concentrated
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Countercurrent Multiplier
• Recaptures NaCl and returns it to renal medulla
• Descending limb
– reabsorbs water but not salt
– concentrates tubular fluid
• Ascending limb
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reabsorbs Na+, K+, and Clmaintains high osmolarity of renal medulla
impermeable to water
tubular fluid becomes hypotonic
• Recycling of urea: collecting duct-medulla
– urea accounts for 40% of high osmolarity of medulla
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Countercurrent Multiplier
of Nephron Loop Diagram
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Countercurrent Exchange System
• Formed by vasa recta
– provide blood supply to medulla
– do not remove NaCl from medulla
• Descending capillaries
– water diffuses out of blood
– NaCl diffuses into blood
• Ascending capillaries
– water diffuses into blood
– NaCl diffuses out of blood
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Maintenance of Osmolarity
in Renal Medulla
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Summary of Tubular
Reabsorption and Secretion
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Composition and Properties of Urine
• Appearance
– almost colorless to deep amber; yellow color due to
urochrome, from breakdown of hemoglobin (RBC’s)
• Odor - as it stands bacteria degrade urea to ammonia
• Specific gravity
– density of urine ranges from 1.001 -1.028
• Osmolarity - (blood - 300 mOsm/L) ranges from
50 mOsm/L to 1,200 mOsm/L in dehydrated person
• pH - range: 4.5 - 8.2, usually 6.0
• Chemical composition: 95% water, 5% solutes
– urea, NaCl, KCl, creatinine, uric acid
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Urine Volume
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Normal volume - 1 to 2 L/day
Polyuria > 2L/day
Oliguria < 500 mL/day
Anuria - 0 to 100 mL/day
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Diabetes
• Chronic polyuria of metabolic origin
• With hyperglycemia and glycosuria
– diabetes mellitus I and II, insulin
hyposecretion/insensitivity
– gestational diabetes, 1 to 3% of pregnancies
• ADH hyposecretion
– diabetes insipidus; CD water reabsorption
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Diuretics
• Effects
– urine output
– blood volume
• Uses
– hypertension and congestive heart failure
• Mechanisms of action
– GFR
– tubular reabsorption
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Renal Function Tests
• Renal clearance: volume of plasma cleared of a
waste in 1 minute
• Determine renal clearance (C) by assessing
blood and urine samples: C = UV/P
– U (waste concentration in urine)
– V (rate of urine output)
– P (waste concentration in plasma)
• Determine GFR: inulin is neither reabsorbed or
secreted so its GFR = renal clearance GFR =
UV/P
• Clinical GFR estimated from creatinine excretion
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Urine Storage and Elimination
• Ureters (about 25 cm long)
– from renal pelvis passes dorsal to bladder and
enters it from below, with a small flap of
mucosa that acts as a valve into bladder
– 3 layers
• adventitia - CT
• muscularis - 2 layers of smooth muscle with
3rd layer in lower ureter
– urine enters, it stretches and contracts in
peristaltic wave
• mucosa - transitional epithelium
– lumen very narrow, easily obstructed
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Urinary Bladder and Urethra Female
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Urinary Bladder
• Located in pelvic cavity, posterior to pubic
symphysis
• 3 layers
– parietal peritoneum, superiorly; fibrous adventitia rest
– muscularis: detrusor muscle, 3 layers of smooth
muscle
– mucosa: transitional epithelium
• trigone: openings of ureters and urethra,
triangular
• rugae: relaxed bladder wrinkled, highly
distensible
• capacity: moderately full - 500 ml, max. - 800 ml
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Female Urethra
• 3 to 4 cm long
• External urethral orifice
– between vaginal orifice and
clitoris
• Internal urethral sphincter
– detrusor muscle thickened,
smooth muscle, involuntary
control
External urethral sphincter
skeletal muscle, voluntary
control
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Male Bladder and Urethra
• 18 cm long
• Internal urethral sphincter
• External urethral sphincter
3 regions
prostatic urethra
during orgasm receives semen
membranous urethra
passes through pelvic cavity
spongy urethra
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Voiding Urine - Micturition
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200 ml urine in bladder, stretch receptors send
signal to sacral spinal cord
Signals ascend to
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Signals descend to
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further inhibit sympathetic neurons
stimulate parasympathetic neurons
Result
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inhibitory synapses on sympathetic neurons
micturition center (integrates info from amygdala, cortex)
urinary bladder contraction
relaxation of internal urethral sphincter
External urethral sphincter - corticospinal tracts to
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Neural Control of Micturition
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Hemodialysis
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