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delivers blood to glomerulus
afferent arteriole
blood from the efferent arteriole flows into this capillary bed
peritubular capillary bed
surrounds glomerulus and collects filtrate
glomerular (Bowman's) capsule
section of renal tubule that descends into medulla
loop of Henle
capillary network w/in renal corpuscle
glomerulus
structure composed of glomerulus and glomerular capsule
renal corpuscle
drains blood from glomerulus
efferent arteriole
capillary loops that extend from the efferent arteriole and run along the loop of Henle (nephron loop) of juxtamedullary nephrons
vasa recta
Author
lenorerox84
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147763
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nephron.txt
Description
Nephron structures
Updated
2012-04-15T20:10:41Z
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