Open AccessStudents′ convoluted trouble with renal autoregulation: A teaching note for students and physiology educators
Author(s) -
Hwee Ming Cheng,
See-Ziau Hoe
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
blde university journal of health sciences/blde university journal of health sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2468-838X
pISSN - 2456-1975
DOI - 10.4103/2456-1975.183281
Subject(s) - autoregulation , confusion , mechanism (biology) , homeostasis , renal physiology , kidney , blood pressure , physiology , extracellular fluid , medicine , psychology , neuroscience , extracellular , biology , epistemology , philosophy , microbiology and biotechnology , psychoanalysis
This teaching insight focused on the common misperceptions regarding renal autoregulation (RenAutoreg). The classical model of RenAutoreg is an intrinsic mechanism of a denervated kidney in an in vitro setup. The whole body homeostatic in vivo model of RenAutoreg in a few major texts accounts for the confusion in understanding the intrinsic nature of RenAutoreg first defined originally. RenAutoreg correctly distinguished will provide the basis for appreciating the other intrinsic renal mechanism called glomerulo-tubular balance and also the "second fiddle" role of RenAutoreg in the homeostasis of extracellular fluid/blood volume and arterial pressure