ILOs:
How does the glomerulus filter blood in the kidney?
- The components involved in glomerular filtration
- What is glomerular filtration rate, and which factors determine it?
- What's the equation for the net filtration pressure?
- What creates the pressure that provides the driving force for ultrafiltration?
- True vs false statement showdown...
How any why do we measure GFR?
- What does measurement of GFR allow?
- If a substance was freely filtered at the glomerulus and was then neither reabsorbed or secreted by the tubules, what amount of the substance would appear in the urine?
- Based on the scenario above, what equation would let us calculate GFR?
- What's clearance?
- How do we calculate clearance?
- Substance X is filtered freely. However, the clearance of substance X (calculated using UV/P) is less than the GFR. What does this tell you about the renal handling of substance X?
- Which two solutes do we clasically use to measure GFR?
- What characteristics must a substance have to measure GFR?
- The case of our boi Alfred.
- What does a lower than normal GFR indicate?