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Process whereby some substances pass through the walls of a glomerulus?
Filtration
Filtrate is formed within the glomerulus by the process of?
The filtrate is formed as a liquid which is forced to pass through the walls of glomerulus. This is formed after the process of filtration.
What feeds the glomerulus and what drains the glomerulus?
Blood enters the glomerulus through the afferent arteriole and drains through the efferent arteriole.
Do blood cells pass from the glomerulus to Bowmans capsule?
Yes, filtered blood from the glomerulus passes to the Bowman's capsule also called the renal capsule.
Blood is filtered through---------the of the nephron?
The glomerulus.
What are the layers in the renal corpuscle through which filtrate must pass to enter the capsular space?
The renal corpuscle filtration barrier is composed of: the fenestrated endothelium of glomerular capillaries, the fused basal lamina of endothelial cells and podocytes, and the filtration slits of the podocytes.
What is surrounded by the Bowman's Capsule?
the glomerulus
What is the function of the glomerulus and the bowman's capsule?
The glomerulus and bowmans capsule are part of the excretory system, and they are found in the nephron of a kidney. The function of the glomerulus and the bowman's capsule is to filter the substances in the blood. The glomerulus is a tangle of capillaries which have little slits in them. Water, salts, glucose and urea pass through the slits into the bowmans capsule, which leads to kidney tubules. Then, as the kidney tubules are surrounded by capillaries, the useful substances (all glucose, some salts, most water) are re-absorbed, and only urea and some salts carry on to be excreted.
What returns filtered blood to the bloodstream after passing through the glomerulus?
the renal tubule?
As blood enters a nephron it flows through a network of capillaries known as a?
Glomerulus
What is the bowman's capsule function?
It carries water and minerals which are filtered out from the blood through glomerulus.
The process of plasmalike fluid passing through the glomerulus to Bowman's capsule is called?
filtration
