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What type of nephron is important in the ability of the kidney to concentrate urine?
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What measures th kidney's ability to concentrate of dilute urine in relation to plasma?
It is urine's specific gravity that measures the kidney's ability to concentrate or dilute urine in relation to plasma.
What is nephron and parts of nephron?
The nephron is the basic and functional unit of the Kidney. It is also know as the urinary tubule. There are more than a million nephrons in a normal kidney.
What is the microscopic anatomical unit of excretion found in the kidney?
Nephron
What is the functional portion or parenchyma of the kidney?
That would be the nephron.
What is the structural unit of the kidney?
Nephron is the basic structural and functional unit of the kidney. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nephron It is composed of a renal corpuscle and a renal tubule. The renal corpuscle consists of a glomerulus and the Bowman's capsule. It is the nephron's initial filtering component. The components of the renal tubule are the proximal convoluted tubule, loop of Henle and the distal convoluted tubule.
Is a nephron a molecule?
A Nephron is the basic structural and functional unit of the kidney. It's not a molecule, more likely a small portion of the kidney that helps the kidney work.
What is the smallest unit of kidney?
Nephron
What is smallest unit of kidney?
Nephron
Which is the functional unit of a kidney?
nephron.
What is the nephron the basic unit of?
kidney
Which part of the kidney filters blood?
The structure that filters the blood in the kidneys is the nephron, or more specifically the glomerulus.
What are the individual unit of the kidney called?
Nephron is the functional unit of the kidney.
