Renal Physiology

Categories: Physiology
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About Course

This course is intended for

  • undergraduate and postgraduate students in medicine, nursing, physiology, and
  • allied health sciences who are studying the structure and function of the kidneys and
  • their role in maintaining fluid, electrolyte, and acid–base balance.

What Will You Learn?

  • After completing this topic/course, learners will be able to:
  • Describe the structure and layers of the glomerular filtration barrier
  • Explain the functions of the fenestrated endothelium, glomerular basement membrane, and podocytes
  • Understand the mechanism of glomerular filtration
  • Identify how size and charge selectivity affect filtration
  • Relate abnormalities of glomerular layers to clinical conditions such as proteinuria and glomerulonephritis

Course Content

Glomerular Structure and function

  • glomerular Layers
  • glomerular questions

Glomerular Filtration Rate

Renal Blood and Plasma Flow

Renal Autoregulation

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