Question

Which of the following would you do in order to increase the concentration of your urine? Select all that apply.

a) Drink two pints of beer.
b) Inject yourself with antidiuretic hormone.
c) Increase the permeability of your distal convoluted tubules.
d) Increase the pressure in your glomeruli.
e) Remove all aldosterone from your bloodstream.
f) Increase the salt concentrations of your kidney tissue.

Answer 1

F. increase the salt concentration of your kidney tissue. To increase the concentration of urine, you should drink alcoholic beverages, inject ADH, and

Step-by-step explanation:

To increase the concentration of urine, you would drink two pints of beer, inject yourself with antidiuretic hormone, and increase the salt concentration of your kidney tissue. Drinking alcoholic beverages, like beer, inhibits the release of antidiuretic hormone (ADH), which leads to less water recovery by the collecting duct, resulting in increased urine output.

Injecting yourself with ADH increases water permeability in the renal collecting tubules, causing more water to be reabsorbed into the bloodstream and less in the urine. Increasing the salt concentration of your kidney tissue would increase the osmotic gradient, resulting in increased water reabsorption and concentration of urine.

To increase urine concentration, you can inject antidiuretic hormone, increase permeability of distal convoluted tubules (for water), or increase salt concentrations in kidney tissue; however, drinking beer which inhibits ADH, increasing glomerular pressure, or removing aldosterone would not achieve this.