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Glomerular Filtration - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Note: MUST BE IN STEADY STATE
- - - - Albumin is negative and is not filtered
      - Glucose, blood and albumin should not normally be in the urine, and only urea, creatinine, electrolytes and water are filtered
  - - - Glomerular Bowmans capsule
        
        Efferent Arteriole
        
        Forces in Bowman Capsule
        
        Glomerular Blood Hydrostatic Pressure (Out)
        
        Capsular Hydrostatic Pressure (In)
        
        Blood colloid osmotic pressure (in)
- - - - Increase in blood pressure causes contraction in the vessel wall
    - - Increased GFR increases NaCl to macula densa
        
        Increase NaCl resorption by macular densa cells results in adenosine release
        
        Adenosine stimulates afferent arteriolar constriction
  - - - Constricts afferent and efferent arterioles
    - - Constricts efferent arterioles more than afferent arterioles
        
        Vasoconstrictors result in increase prostaglandin production leading to vasodilation
        
        NSAIDS can block prostaglandin