Question

Case Scenario: A 34-year-old man has taken his youngest daughter to soccer practice. He begins to experience low abdominal and back pain and is nauseated. He finds himself squatting down in an attempt to alleviate the pain. Unable to alleviate the discomfort, he takes his daughter home. On arrival, he literally falls out of the minivan and onto the driveway. His wife asks a neighbor to watch the children, and she drives him to a nearby ER. As they pull into the parking lot, the pain immediately subsides. They enter the ER and approach the triage desk. Describing his symptoms, the staff suggests it could have been a kidney stone.

2. Question: Describe the one mechanism responsible for autoregulatory response in the kidney. Include in your answer specific facts, data, examples, and other information drawn from your textbook and at least one other supplemental source.

Answer 1

One mechanism responsible for the autoregulatory response in the kidney is Myogenic mechanism

Our kidney has the ability to maintain glomerular perfusion rate and glomerular filtration rate constant even under the influence of arterial pressures. For example, normally our kidneys keep on absorbing chloride, uria and water but actually is related with the circulation of sodium (Na). Till the time, the carrier particles in our body like glucose exhaust, the kidney starts excreting the unabsorbed element through urine and this phenomenon is called carrier mechanism which is not a part of autoregulatory process.

Apart from balancing a steady inner conditions for optimal cell and tissue metabolism, the kidney also plays a major role in body's endocrine function responsible for regulating blood pressure, producing erythrocyte and calcium metabolism which are very necessary for the human body function.