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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.
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∙ 13y agoIt is capillary inside bowman's capsule (cup-like structure of nephron) whose blood pressure provides driving force for water and minerals to be filtered out from the blood into the spaces made by bowman's capsule.
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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.
What is the structure that drains blood from the glomerulus in the kidney?
The efferent arteriole.
What Kidney structures that help to regulate blood pressure?
The glomerulus ...
What is meaning of glomerulus?
The bunch of looped capillary blood vessels in a Malpighian capsule of the kidney.
What is the role of glomerulus in excretion?
It is the capillary tuft in the kidney that is involved in the first step of filtering the blood to form urine.
What is the nephron process?
The nephron process is where the blood enters the glomerulus and is absorbed. It is then processed through the kidney's and turned into urine.
Name 2 blood vessels which enters and leave the kidney?
Afferent - go into the glomerulus and efferent - go out of glomerulus
What feeds the glomerulus and what drains the glomerulus?
Blood enters the glomerulus through the afferent arteriole and drains through the efferent arteriole.
The filtration of the blood in the kidney takes place in the?
Glomerulus
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.
In the kidney what structure that delivers blood to the glomerulus?
The afferent arteriole.
What is the structure that drains blood from the glomerulus in the kidney?
The efferent arteriole.
What Kidney structures that help to regulate blood pressure?
The glomerulus ...
Which organ filters urea out of the blood?
The glomerulus, it is part of the nephron.
What structures filter blood in a kidney?
Renal corpuscle
As blood enters a nephron it flows through a network of capillaries known as a?
Glomerulus
What is meaning of glomerulus?
The bunch of looped capillary blood vessels in a Malpighian capsule of the kidney.
