Regulation of Potassium Balance
Objectives Upon completion of this chapter, the student should be able to answer the following questions: • How does the body maintain K + homeostasis? • What is the distribution…
NEPHROLOGY
Renal Transport Mechanisms: NaCl and Water Reabsorption Along the Nephron
Objectives Upon completion of this chapter, the student should be able to answer the following questions: • What three processes are involved in the production of urine? • What is…
Physiology of Body Fluids
Objectives Upon completion of this chapter, the student should be able to answer the following questions : • How do body fluid compartments differ with respect to their volumes and…
Regulation of Extracellular Fluid Volume and NaCl Balance
Objectives Upon completion of this chapter, the student should be able to answer the following questions: • Why do changes in Na + balance alter the volume of extracellular fluid?…
Regulation of Body Fluid Osmolality: Regulation of Water Balance
Objectives Upon completion of this chapter, the student should be able to answer the following questions: • Why do changes in water balance result in alterations in the [Na +…
Structure and Function of the Kidneys
Objectives Upon completion of this chapter, the student should be able to answer the following questions : • Which structures in the glomerulus are filtration barriers to plasma proteins? •…
Glomerular Filtration and Renal Blood Flow
Objectives Upon completion of this chapter, the student should be able to answer the following questions: • How can the concepts of mass balance be used to measure the glomerular…
Tumours and Tumour-like Lesions of the Liver
Chapter Contents Diagnostic approach: morphological patterns 781 Hepatocellular and hepatoid/epithelioid patterns 782 Glandular (biliary, papillary) pattern 783 Mixed epithelioid-glandular (hepatobiliary) pattern 783 Other predominant cell patterns 783 Cystic pattern 785…
Bile Duct Diseases
Chapter Contents Normal morphology of biliary tree and peribiliary glands 516 Morphological features 516 Self-defence system and innate immunity 517 Biliary epithelial injury 520 Basic changes in response to injury…
Developmental and Inherited Liver Disease
Keywords atresia, ciliopathy, cystic fibrosis, disorders of bile acid synthesis and transport, porphyria, carbohydrate metabolism, mitochondrial disorders Chapter Contents Diagnostic approach to histology 113 Neonatal and early infantile liver…
