Renal

renal portal system
blood vessels (veins) carrying blood from the posterior part of the body to the kidneys. Oxygenated blood is carried to the kidneys by the renal arteries ...
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Renal corpuscle
[L. renes - the kidneys; L. corpusculum - a body]. The filtration unit found in the cortex of the kidneys and made up of Bowman's capsule and a glomerulus.
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The adrenal glands are two small structures situated one atop each kidney.
Both in anatomy and in function, they consist of two distinct regions:
an outer layer, the adrenal cortex, which surrounds
the adrenal medulla.
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dRTA (distal renal tubular acidosis) results from the failure of the a-intercalated cells in the distal tubule of the nephron to acidify the urine.
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renal capsule: The membranous covering of the kidney.
cortex: The outer layer over the internal medulla. It contains blood vessels, glomeruli (which are the kidneys' "filters") and urine tubes and is supported by a fibrous matrix.
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renal arteries: arteries in which blood enters the kidney.
renal veins: veins in which blood exits the kidney.
responsiveness: the ability of living things to respond to stimuli in the external environment.
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Renal corpuscles - the initial filtering component of nephrons in the kidneys
splenic lymphoid nodules, or White nodules - follicles in the white pulp of the spleen, containing many lymphocytes ...
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renal tubule The portion of the nephron where urine is produced. PICTURE
renin An enzyme secreted by the kidneys that converts angiotensinogen into angiotensin II.
replication Process by which DNA is duplicated prior to cell division. PICTURE ...
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Renal ren = kidney.
renette An excretory structure found in some worms.
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renal
Pertaining to the kidneys.
Covered in Lab 16 Rat Respiratory and Circulatory Systems
renal portal system
The system of veins in fish and amphibians taking blood from the region of the tail or hind limbs directly to the kidneys.
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adrenal gland
(uh-dree-nul) [L. ad, near + renes, kidney]
An endocrine gland located adjacent to the kidney in mammals; composed of two glandular portions: an outer cortex, ...
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In 1989, an amendment to the statute added congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) to the NBS list. At that time, the literature reports that only Alaska screened for CAH (Stevens et al., 1988).
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Steroids released from the adrenal cortex. Corticosteroids include both mineralocorticoids and glucocorticoids.
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She died at age eighty-four as a result of renal failure in New York and was cremated. Her ashes are buried at the Skogskyrkogrden Cemetery in Stockholm.
Greta Garbo has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6901 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood.
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Smooth endoplasmic reticulum is abundant in the adrenal cortex and the testes where it produces steroid hormones.
The smooth endoplasmic reticulum of liver cells helps detoxify drugs in the blood.
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This is usually a result of a change in the fetal adrenal glands, leading to production of abnormally high levels of androgens.
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contra- against cyte- cell corticosteroids Steroid hormones formed by the adrenal cortex. cosmid A cloning vector, used for cloning large DNA fragments; generally contains segments derived from bacteriophages and various plasmids.
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Von Hippel-Lindau syndrome -- an autosomal dominant condition characterized by the anomalous growth and proliferation of blood vessels on the retina of the eye and the cerebellum of the brain; cysts and cancers in the kidneys, pancreas, and adrenal ...
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