Explain Histology of Nephron.
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The nephron is a long, winding tubule.
It extends from the Bowman's Capsule and ends in the renal papillae.
It mainly consists of tabular epithelial cells
It's major function is to seperate water and other small molecules from the blood.
What is Nephron??
The nephron of the kidney is involved in the regulation of water and soluble substances in blood.
☢Nephron is the basic structural and functional unit of kidney, the structure that actually produces urine in the process of removing waste and excess substances from the blood.
☢Each nephron is a long tubule, at one end this tube is closed, expanded, and folded into a double-walled cuplike structure, called the renal corpuscular capsule, or Bowman’s capsule, encloses a cluster of microscopic blood vessels—capillaries—called the glomerulus.
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- The glomerulus is the site in the nephron where fluid and solutes are filtered out of the blood to form a glomerular filtrate.
- The proximal and distal tubules, the loop of Henle, and the collecting ducts are sites for the reabsorption of water and ions.
All of the glucose in the blood is reabsorbed by the proximal convoluted tubule through ion cotransport.
- The loop of Henle (sometimes known as the nephron loop) is a U-shaped tube that consists of a descending limb and ascending limb, which differ in permeability.
- The collecting duct and distal convoluted tubule are normally impermeable to water, but this is altered due to hormone stimulus during homeostasis.
- Bowman's capsule:-A cup-like sac at the beginning of the tubular component of a nephron in the mammalian kidney.
- proximal tubule:-The first and primary sort of water and ion reabsorption in the kidney, where all glucose in the blood is reabsorbed.
glomerulus:A small, intertwined group of capillaries within the nephrons of the kidney that filter the blood to make urine.