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SISTEMA URINARIO - MEDICINA VETERINARIA 🐄 🐈 🐩 🐎 🐖

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Science and Nature

Scientific concepts / discoveries / nature phenomena presented

Main urinary system organs and overall function

  • Kidneys (right and left): excrete urine and regulate internal balance.
  • Ureters: transport urine from kidneys to bladder.
  • Bladder: stores urine.
  • Urethra: eliminates urine from the body.

Kidney functions

  • Urine formation via three key processes:
    • Filtration
    • Secretion
    • Selective reabsorption (recovering water, low-molecular-weight proteins, and electrolytes)
  • Acid–base balance
  • Hormone production, notably:
    • Erythropoietin (EPO) → involved in systemic blood pressure control and red blood cell production

Kidney anatomy and functional flow (nephron pathway)

Kidney regions mentioned

  • Renal capsule
  • Cortex
  • Renal pyramids
  • Renal medulla

Structures and sequence described

  • Renal pelvis: receives urine; associated with outflow to the ureter
  • Glomerulus: begins filtration
  • Proximal tubule: massive reabsorption of water and solutes
  • Loop of Henle:
    • Descending limb: countercurrent exchange
    • Ascending limb: reabsorption of minerals
  • “External medullary apparatus”: regulates glomerular filtration rate and systemic blood pressure
  • Distal convoluted tubule: mineral reabsorption and fluid dilution
  • Collecting duct (with segments):
    • Cortical
    • Outer medullary
    • Inner medullary
  • Final regulation of water, urea, and acid extrusion

General nephron/urine concept: Filtration → reabsorption (useful substances) → secretion (substances added to filtrate)

Comparative anatomy across mammals (shape and special features)

  • Canine (dog): described in general terms (no specific unique structural claim beyond comparisons).
  • Feline (cat):
    • Bean-shaped
    • “Good capsules” described as a distinctive feline feature (not considered pathology)
  • Pig (swine):
    • Flattened, longer than dog/cat kidneys
    • No renal crests, but has calyces
  • Horse (equine):
    • Left kidney bean-shaped
    • Right kidney described as having a heart-like shape
    • Terminal recess located in the renal pelvis
  • Bovine (cow):
    • Globular shape
    • 18–20 calyces
    • Ovoid calyces
    • No renal pelvis or crest
    • Caudal branch of the ureter

Kidney location (vertebral-level descriptions)

General placement

  • Lumbar area
  • Retroperitoneal
  • Near the midline
  • Positional support mentioned: kept by fascia/scrotum (as stated)

Species-specific vertebral ranges given

  • Dog: right kidney between thoracic vertebrae T12–T13
  • Cat: lumbar 2
  • Ruminants: thoracic 13
  • Horse: thoracic T15–T17
  • Pig: lumbar L1–L4

Side-to-side relative position differences (as stated)

  • Dogs: right kidney one vertebra more caudal than left
  • Cats: usually same level or slightly more caudal
  • Ruminants: two vertebrae more caudal
  • Horses: left from T17 to L13 range mentioned
  • Pigs: approximately L1 to L4

Additional note (cat mobility)

  • Pendulous/movable left kidney in cats described as normal.

Renal irrigation / blood supply concept

  • Renal arteries enter the kidney → branch through several arteries → reach the glomerulus via arterioles.
  • After filtration, blood exits via different arterioles.
  • Medullary capillaries in the cortex run parallel to nearby tubules and parts of arterioles/glomeruli.
  • Blood returns to circulation via veins and arteries.

Ureters

  • Tubules from the renal pelvis to the bladder through the dorsal wall of the pelvis
  • One ureter per kidney
  • Divided into:
    • Abdominal part
    • Pelvic part

Bladder

  • Described as large, flexible, and mobile
  • When empty:
    • located largely within the pelvic cavity
    • thicker wall
  • When full:
    • thin wall
    • extends cranially
  • Function: urine storage

Urethra

  • Function: eliminate urine stored in bladder
  • Described as a membranous tubule connecting bladder neck to the surface
  • Muscles allow voluntary control of urination
  • Sexual/sex-specific anatomical differences stated:
    • Females: urethra runs from the neck to the vagina
    • Males: pelvic urethra empties into vas deferens and accessory sex glands; described connection to seminal region (semininal colliculus)

Birds (major difference from mammals)

  • Urinary and genital systems are linked
    • Both develop from a common urethral opening
    • Both ducts terminate in the cloaca
  • Birds lack a urinary bladder
  • Urine eliminated as a semi-solid product
  • Uric acid excretion stated

Researchers / sources featured

  • None mentioned in the provided subtitles.

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