The glomerulus (pl.: glomeruli) is a network of small blood vessels (capillaries) known as a tuft, located at the beginning of a nephron in the kidney. Each...
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fibers, or neurons. Glomerulus is the diminutive of the Latin glomus, meaning "ball of yarn". Glomerulus may refer to: Glomerulus (kidney), the filtering...
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Nephron (redirect from Kidney tubules)
of the kidney. It is composed of a renal corpuscle and a renal tubule. The renal corpuscle consists of a tuft of capillaries called a glomerulus and a...
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Renal corpuscle (redirect from Kidney corpuscle)
renal corpuscle is composed of two structures, the glomerulus and the Bowman's capsule. The glomerulus is a small tuft of capillaries containing two cell...
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removal of toxins. Filtration occurs in the glomerulus: one-fifth of the blood volume that enters the kidneys is filtered. Examples of substances reabsorbed...
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one in seven in 2021. Causes of kidney disease include deposition of the Immunoglobulin A antibodies in the glomerulus, administration of analgesics, xanthine...
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Glomerulonephritis (category Kidney diseases)
Glomerulonephritis refers to an inflammation of the glomerulus, which is the unit involved in filtration in the kidney. This inflammation typically results in one...
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podocytes). The Bowman's capsule contains a dense capillary network called the glomerulus. Blood flows into these capillaries through the afferent arterioles and...
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Assessment of kidney function occurs in different ways, using the presence of symptoms and signs, as well as measurements using urine tests, blood tests...
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Kidney development, or nephrogenesis, describes the embryologic origins of the kidney, a major organ in the urinary system. This article covers a 3 part...
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Nephritic syndrome (category Syndromes affecting the kidneys)
comprising signs of nephritis, which is kidney disease involving inflammation. It often occurs in the glomerulus, where it is called glomerulonephritis...
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Podocyte (redirect from Kidney glomerulus podocyte)
Podocytes are cells in Bowman's capsule in the kidneys that wrap around capillaries of the glomerulus. Podocytes make up the epithelial lining of Bowman's...
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Histology at KUMC epithel-epith02 Simple squamous epithelium of the glomerulus (kidney) Diagrams of simple squamous epithelium Histology at KUMC epithel-epith12...
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between species. The cortex and medulla of the kidney contain nephrons, each of which consists of a glomerulus and a complex tubular system. The cortex contains...
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Juxtaglomerular apparatus (category Kidney anatomy)
mesangial cells The juxtaglomerular apparatus is part of the kidney nephron, next to the glomerulus. It is found between afferent arteriole and the thick ascending...
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Bowman's capsule (category Kidney anatomy)
of a nephron in the mammalian kidney that performs the first step in the filtration of blood to form urine. A glomerulus is enclosed in the sac. Fluids...
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pathophysiology both centre around how the glomerulus, a network of dense capillaries that carries out the kidney filtration process, is affected; with one...
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Renal physiology (redirect from Kidney physiology)
nephrons, the functional units of the kidney. Each nephron begins in a renal corpuscle, which is composed of a glomerulus enclosed in a Bowman's capsule. Cells...
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place in the kidneys when the blood enters the kidneys and the larger substances are separated from the smaller ones in the glomerulus. The two main...
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Lupus nephritis (category Kidney diseases)
risk of progression to end stage kidney disease and higher risk of concurrent cardiovascular disease. Glomerulus (kidney) Ponticelli, C.; Moroni, G. (2005-01-01)...
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with an external glomerulus or glomus. The typical pronephric nephron is non-integrated, and the wastes are filtered through the glomerulus or glomus directly...
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Renal circulation (redirect from Segmental arteries of kidney)
vein exiting the kidney for transfusion for blood. The table below shows the path that blood takes when it travels through the glomerulus, traveling "down"...
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Mesangial cells are specialised cells in the kidney that make up the mesangium of the glomerulus. Together with the mesangial matrix, they form the vascular...
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Goormaghtigh cells) are light-staining pericytes in the kidney found outside the glomerulus, near the vascular pole. They resemble smooth muscle cells...
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Efferent arteriole (category Kidney anatomy)
from the glomerulus. The efferent arterioles form a convergence of the capillaries of the glomerulus, and carry blood away from the glomerulus that has...
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IgA nephropathy (category Kidney diseases)
nephropathy is characterized by deposition of the IgA antibody in the glomerulus. There are other diseases associated with glomerular IgA deposits, the...
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Glomerulocystic kidney disease (GCKD) is a cystic disorder of the kidneys. GCKD involves cystic dilation of Bowman's capsule. It can occur with or without...
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Pyelonephritis (redirect from Kidney infection)
Pyelonephritis is inflammation of the kidney, typically due to a bacterial infection. Symptoms most often include fever and flank tenderness. Other symptoms...
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Diabetic nephropathy (redirect from Diabetic kidney disease)
progressive chronic kidney disease leading to end-stage renal disease (ESRD). The damage is exerted on all compartments of the kidney: the glomerulus, the renal...
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Renal medulla (redirect from Kidney medulla)
interlobular arteries, and these finally reach the glomeruli. At the glomerulus the blood reaches a highly disfavourable pressure gradient and a large...
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