How does salt, sugar and caffeine affect urine volume?

Q: What is the glucose filtered load (in mg/min) when GFR = 135 ml/min; plasma glucose concentration =…

A: Glomerular filtration rate is a test used to determine how well the kidneys are working and…

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A: Dementia can be defined as a syndrome in which memory, perceptions, actions, and the ability to…

Q: Which type of t-test is best for the following variables:(a) Age measured by # of years old (b) Life…

A: The variable that is changed during a scientific experiment is known as the independent variable.…

Q: In a person with diabetes mellitus, what would be causing polyuria? Glucose has saturated the…

A: The first statement that is,  Glucose has saturated the secondary active transporters in the PCT…

Q: Explain how dialysis, osmosis, passive transport, and active transport play key roles in the…

A: Urine may be a waste byproduct produced from excess water and metabolic waste molecules within the…

Q: Which of the following protein types would you predict is defective in kidney water balance…

A: The glomerulus of the nephron of both the kidneys filtrate about 180 L of water per day but only 1.5…

Q: how are lipid soluble substances reabsorbed at the proximal convoluted tubule? aquaporins,…

A: The nephron is the structural and functional unit of the kidney present in our body which is…

Q: do the kidneys regulare the osmolarity and volume levels of the urine as the state of hydration…

A: Two bean-shaped organs, each roughly the size of a fist, make up the kidneys. One on each side of…

Q: Urea is reabsorbed in the collecting duct by simple diffusion. facilitated diffusion. primary…

A: Substances move across the plasma membrane of the cell when required. Their transportation across…

Q: What chemical substances normally are present in urine?

A: Normal human urine is formed of water (nearly 96%), organic wastes (2.5%), inorganic salts (1.5%),…

Q: Patient with dehydration was started on fluid therapy. If 5% dextrose is isoosmotic to plasma what…

A: Dehydration: When you use or lose more fluid than you take in, your body becomes dehydrated because…

Q: Why is excretion important in order to achieve osmotic balance?

A: Excretion- It is a process by which the body's metabolic waste is eliminated out from an organism's…

Q: What is the importance of filtration to human physiology?

A: Filtration refers to the physiological phenomenon in which water and excess waste are excreted out…

Q: A kidney stone blocking a ureter would interfere with urine flow to which organ? Why would the pain…

A: The kidneys present in the vertebrates are important for the removal of wastes, toxins, and drugs…

Q: the kidney does ADH act to restore osmolarity to homeostatic values (280-300mOsm)

A: Anti-diuretic hormone (ADH) or Vasopressin hormone is released from the neuro-secretory cells of the…

Q: What types of osmoregulatory challenges do humans experience? Explain. What mechanisms do we have to…

A: Homeostasis or osmoregulation is a process adopted by our body to maintain equilibrium environment…

Q: Acetazolamide is a diuretic that blocks the activity of the enzyme carbonic anhydrase inside kidney…

A: Diuretics (water pills) work to increase the expulsion of water and other salts through the urine.…

Q: The lowest solute concentration is in the:    Bowman's capsule Proximal tubule beginning of the…

A: The mechanism of moving solutes and water out of the fluid and receiving it into circulation is…

Q: Decreased osmolarity in the renal interstitium and vasa recta results in - (Mark Two) decreased…

A: The regulation of water concentration in the body is mediated by a hormone called vasoppresin or ADH…

Q: Which of the following should happen with the innervation of the urinary bladder and urethral…

A: The excretory system is required for the removal of nitrogenous wastes from the body of an organism.…

Q: is specific gravity (of urine) directly realted to urine output volume? like as one decreases the…

A: Specific gravity (SG) is the comparison of density of urine against the density of distilled water…

Q: What test result would show that a patient has nephrogenic diabetes insipidus, after being given an…

A: Diabetes insipidus (DI) is a disorder that causes electrolyte imbalances by inducing reduced…

Q: During severe exertion in a hot environment, a person can lose up to 4 liters of sweat per hour (…

A: Sweating is the main source of loss of water during a a period of strenuous exercise or eve during…

Q: Urine is not about eliminating water accumulating directly in the urinary bladder.  It is instead a…

A: The management of fluid body composition is the kidney's main job. The kidney is the organ…

Q: Dehydration instigates which of the following processes?   Thirst mechanism   Decreased sweating…

A: The kidney functions in the filtration of the electrolytes and water through the blood. The…

Q: The renal handling of a novel drug is being studied. When the drug is present in the blood, it is…

A: GivenDrug reabsorption is negligible.

Q: Mannitol is a sugar that does not pass through the walls of capillaries in the brain. It also does…

A: Ans. Mannitol is considered osmotically active because it is a solute that is not easily able to…

Q: Which of the following is NOT a function of the kidney?

A: Kidneys are two bean-shaped organs, located just below the rib cage, one on each side of your spine,…

Q: How do the kidneys maintain blood pH? Group of answer choices by releasing buffers by excreting H+…

A: Micturition  It is a process where urine is expelled from the body. Animals and humans have a…

Q: What structure does the proximal tubule lead to? O O intermediate tubule O glomerulus O distal…

A: In vertebrates,Kidneys are the main oragn which involved in excretion.In each kidney,there is…

Q: a disagreement about renal function. Student X says that the kidneys work harder when you eat a high…

A: The nephrons are the functional unit of kidneys.The kidneys form the urine by the filtration of the…

Q: which blood pH would cause the kidneys specifically the collecting ducts to excrete bicarbonate…

A: Bicarbonate, also realized as HCO3, is a product of your body's metabolism .Blood brings bicarbonate…

Q: how can glucose be a diuretic

A: Diuresis is a phenomenon in which an increase in the production of urine occurs. The substance that…

Q: Considering the equation for renal clearance: UV C = C =F, if the concentration of a substance in 4.…

A: The basic unit of the bean-shaped organ called the kidney is the nephron. It is the organ of the…