FUNCTION
Professor Harbindar Jeet Singh
Faculty of Medicine
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
Objectives of the lecture
proximal tubule,
loop,
Histological Ultrastructural
S1 S2 S3
Glucose reabsorption
Transport maximum TM
for glucose
In an adult human, the
transport maximum for
glucose is 375 mg/min
Reabsorption of sodium chloride (NaCl)
Effects of PTH
Action.
There occurs
The filterable phosphate varies between 0.7 – 1.3 mM (ionised and complexed)
(i.e. 86 % of the total phosphate concentration).
mg/dl mM
Ionised H2PO4- and HPO42- 2.1 0.7
Diffusible phosphate 1.5 0.5
Non-diffusible phosphate 0.6 0.2
Total phosphate 4.2 1.4
Phosphate-anion
exchanger
Proximal tubule
Water reabsorption
• Na+ dependent
• Na+ independent
The AA transport systems have also been divided according
the AA transported