Question

Diuretic drugs ________. keep sodium and potassium from being reabsorbed from the tubules back into the blood allow sodium and potassium to enter the tubules keep sodium and potassium from leaving the blood and entering the kidney allow sodium and potassium to be reabsorbed from the tubules into the blood

Answer 1

Answer: Option A

Explanation:

A diuretic drug is a type of drug which is given to the person suffering from hypertension or any type of edema. This drug allows the body to urinate again and again so that the body cannot hold huge amount of sodium and potassium in the body.

This drugs works by preventing the absorption of sodium and potassium in the tubules and do not allows the re absorption of salts into the blood.

Hence, the person discharges more urine as compared to that of normal amount.

Answer 2

keep sodium and potassium from being reabsorbed from the tubules back into the blood

Step-by-step explanation:

Diuretic drugs are the approved drugs which increase the diuresis or the amount of urine. The physiology of more production of urine depends upon the absorption of sodium and potassium ions.

The diuretic drugs act on the transporters present in the membrane of the nephron structures especially in the distal and the collecting tubule.

The drugs inhibit these transporters which allow the sodium and potassium ions to be reabsorbed from the unfiltered solution as a result of which the concentration increases in the urine and the water move out down the concentration gradient. Thus more sodium ions, therefore, more urine is produced.

Thus, the selected option is the correct answer.