Nephron (4267 bytes)
1: [[Image:Kidney nephron.png|thumb|right|250px|Nephron of the kidney]]
3: ...ter]]. Each [[human]] kidney has about a million nephrons.
5: The basic function of the nephron is to regulate [[water]] and soluble substances (...
7: The nephron filters the blood by several processes concentrat...
11: ... up the [[Glomerulus (kidney)|glomerulus]] of the nephron. The blood pressure within the capillaries squee...

Bowman's capsule (602 bytes)
1: ...rular filtrate]]) and further processed along the nephron to form [[urine]].

Renal corpuscle (723 bytes)
1: ...trate", which is then further processed along the nephron to form [[urine]].

Glomerulus (kidney) (907 bytes)
1: ...d surrounded by the [[Bowman's capsule]] of the [[nephron]] in the [[vertebrate]] [[kidney]].
7: ...omes [[urine]] after further processing along the nephron.

Distal convoluted tubule (1523 bytes)
1: ...Image:Kidney_nephron.png|right|thumb|300px|Kidney nephron]]
3: ...ubule''' ('''DCT''') is a portion of [[kidney]] [[nephron]] between the [[loop of Henle]] and the [[collect...

Excretory system (480 bytes)
8: ** [[Nephron]]

Malpighian corpuscle (573 bytes)
2: ...s''' — the initial filtering component of [[nephron]]s in the [[kidney]]s

Parenchyma (756 bytes)
1: ...[[organ (anatomy)|organ]] in the body (i.e. the [[nephron]]s of the [[kidney]], the [[alveolus|alveoli]] of...

Atrial natriuretic factor (799 bytes)
1: ... and [[cortical collecting duct]] of [[kidney]] [[nephron]]s. It also dilates the [[afferent glomerular art...

Loop of Henle (2834 bytes)
1: The '''loop of Henle''' is a section of the [[nephron]] that leads from the [[proximal convoluted tubul...
35: *[[Nephron]]

Blackwater fever (1151 bytes)
1: ...the urine where it causes further damage to the [[nephron|tubule]]s of the kidney.

William Bowman (2081 bytes)
3: ...[[Bowman's capsule]]''', a key component of the [[nephron]]. He presented his findings in [[1842]] in his ...

Osmoregulation (5295 bytes)
38: ... a "u-turn" called the Loop of Henle (loop of the nephron) in the medulla portion of the kidney.

Renal function (3628 bytes)
50: ...on of creatinine clearance from serum creatinine. Nephron 1976;16:31-42.
54: * [http://www.nephron.com/ Online calculator] for Cockroft-Gault and MD...

Loop diuretic (3725 bytes)
21: ...ibit sodium reabsorption at multiple sites in the nephron) is often successful.

Kidney (12663 bytes)
23: ... more than a million in each normal adult kidney. Nephrons regulate water and soluble substances (especiall...
25: A nephron consists of an initial filtering component called...

Adrenal gland (7481 bytes)
36: ...g on the [[distal convoluted tubule]] of kidney [[nephron]]s to:

Urinary system (11393 bytes)
8: ...stances, forms the urine as it passes through the nephrons and down the renal tubules of the kidney.

List of biology topics (14437 bytes)
80: ... [[NADH]] - [[NADPH]] - [[natural selection]] - [[nephron]] - [[nervous system]] - [[neural plate]] - [[neu...

List of biomedical topics, K to O (85567 bytes)
282: [[lower nephron nephrosis]] -- [[lower respiratory tract]] --
990: [[nephrolithiasis]] -- [[nephron]] -- [[nephrosclerosis]] --

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