Anatom3DJuxtaglomerular apparatus
Complexus juxtaglomerularis · Juxtaglomerulární aparát
Endocrine glands
Looks like
A microscopic contact point where the distal tubule touches the arteriole feeding its own glomerulus.
What it does
Senses blood pressure and salt and releases renin to raise them when low.
Keeping it well
ACE inhibitors and similar drugs block the system it starts; narrowing of a renal artery overdrives it and causes hard-to-treat high blood pressure.
Related conditions
- Acute kidney injury
- Adrenal insufficiency (Addison's)
- Amyloidosis (AL and ATTR)
- Chronic kidney disease
- Dehydration & electrolyte disorders
- Diabetes insipidus (arginine vasopressin deficiency)
- Diabetic ketoacidosis
- Glomerulonephritis
- Haemolytic uraemic syndrome
- Hantavirus infection
- High blood pressure
- Hydronephrosis
- Hyperparathyroidism
- Hyperthyroidism & Graves' disease
- Hypothyroidism
- IgA nephropathy
- Kidney cancer
- Kidney infection
- Kidney stones
- Lead poisoning
- Leptospirosis (Weil's disease)
- Menopause & perimenopause
- Nephrotic syndrome
- Poisoning & overdose
- Polycystic kidney disease
- Polycystic ovary syndrome
- Postnatal depression
- Pre-eclampsia
- Renal artery stenosis
- Rhabdomyolysis
- SIADH (inappropriate antidiuretic hormone)
- Systemic lupus erythematosus
- Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP)
- Toxic shock syndrome
- Tuberous sclerosis complex
- Type 1 diabetes
- Vesicoureteral reflux
- Wilms tumour (nephroblastoma)
- Yellow fever