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What happens after the blood flows into the nephron capillary cluster?
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What blood vessel exchanges substances with a nephron?
Capillary. The thin walls allow diffusion of materials to pass from the blood flow into the nephron.
The cluster of blood capillaries found in each nephron is?
Glomerulus
What happens after blood enters the glomerulus in the kidney?
The glomerulus is the cluster of capillaries that branch off the renal artery in the kidneys. It is here that filtrationtakes place - small molecules such as glucose, water, ions and amino acids diffuse through the narrow capillary walls and into the nephron.
What is the name of the cluster of blood vessels going into Bowman's capsule?
nephron
If the walls of the capillary cluster in a nephron were damaged or broken what substance might you expect to find in urine that is not normally present Explain Please?
the substance might you expect to is dead blood cells
What is the structure of glomerulus?
The glomerulus is a cluster of capillaries that can be found in the kidney. Each cluster is next to a Bowman's capsule, which is the "filter unit" of the nephron. Blood passes from the renal artery into the glomerulus at high pressure, allowing small substances to diffuse into the nephron, via the Bowman's capsule.
What happens to glucose which the nephron along with a filtrate?
It is reabsorbed into the blood through blood capillaries surroundings the tubule
What happens at a capillary?
exchage of materials between blood and tissues occur in cappilaries.
What happens if capillary pressure increases too much?
The capillary might burst (bruising) or, if it is the kidneys, the subject might pee blood.
Cluster of tiny blood vessels in a nephron?
There's the afferent arteriole which goes to the glomerulus and the efferent arterioles which comes out of the glomerulus. These arterioles then branch out surrounding the nephron, these are called peritubular capillaries and they allow for selective reabsorption of substances as well as secretion.
What happens to glucose that enters the nephron along with filtrate?
The glucose that enters the nephron along with the filtrate get absorbed by the glomerulus goes to the proximal convoluted tubule (pct) and again reabsorbed and enters the blood.
Functional unit of kidney that removes waste from blood?
that is called the nephron. and due to pressure filtration in the cluster of blood vessels present in them, wastes are removed.
