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- part of nephron the collecting ducts. Nephrons have two lengths with different urine-concentrating capacities: long juxtamedullary nephrons and short...
- are based on nephrons together with an extensive network of blood vessels and capillaries, as well as collecting ducts, into which nephrons empty, and renal...
- dysfunction is diagnosed and treated the greater odds of preserving remaining nephrons, and preventing the need for dialysis. The severity of chronic kidney disease...
- excretion of sodium). The blood is filtered by nephrons, the functional units of the kidney. Each nephron begins in a renal corpuscle, which is composed...
- tuft, located at the beginning of a nephron in the kidney. Each of the two kidneys contains about one million nephrons. The tuft is structurally supported...
- mouse kidney contains only about 12,500 nephrons. The kidneys also carry out functions independent of the nephrons. For example, they convert a precursor...
- are also known as: Renal corpuscles — the initial filtering component of nephrons in the kidneys White pulp, splenic lymphoid nodules, or white nodules —...
- begins within the functional unit of the kidney, the nephrons. Urine then flows through the nephrons, through a system of converging tubules called collecting...
- from the nephrons by osmosis (and glucose and other ions are pumped out with active transport), gradually raising the concentration in the nephrons. Loop...
- kidney consists of a series of tubules and ducts that physically connect nephrons to a minor calyx or directly to the renal pelvis. The collecting duct parti****tes...