What is the name of the artery that carries blood to the kidney?
Pulmonary artery
Renal artery
Coronary artery
What is filtered out of the blood to form urine?
Urea
Carbon dioxide
Glucose
Urine leaves the body through which tube?
Vena cava
Urethra
Ureter
Each kidney contains a million nephrons. Where exactly in the kidney are the nephrons found?
Cortex and medulla
Medulla and pelvis
Cortex and pelvis
Which of these substances is filtered out of the blood during ultrafiltration?
Red blood cells
Protein
Anti-diuretic hormone (ADH) is released by which part of the body?
The kidney
The pancreas
The brain
If the blood plasma contains too little water, what will happen to the secretion of ADH into the blood stream?
It increases
It decreases
It stops
Normal urine does not contain glucose. Detecting glucose in the urine is a symptom of which disease?
Diabetes
Kidney damage
Heart disease
In a dialysis machine, why is it important that the blood and dialysis fluid move in opposite directions along the partially permeable membrane?
To stop diffusion
To maintain a concentration gradient for diffusion across the membrane
To reduce a concentration gradient for diffusion across the membrane
If a patient has a kidney transplant, what type of drugs are they required to take for the rest of their lives?
Antibiotics
Immunosuppressants
Painkillers