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  2. Glomerulus (kidney) - Wikipedia

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    15624. Anatomical terminology. [edit on Wikidata] 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 of the two kidneys contains about one million nephrons. The tuft is structurally supported by the mesangium (the space between the blood ...

  3. Renal corpuscle - Wikipedia

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    Identifiers. Latin. corpusculum renis. FMA. 15625. Anatomical terminology. [edit on Wikidata] A renal corpuscle (or Malpighian body[1]) is the blood-filtering component of the nephron of the kidney. It consists of a glomerulus - a tuft of capillaries composed of endothelial cells - and a glomerular capsule known as Bowman's capsule.

  4. Nephron - Wikipedia

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    The nephron is the minute or microscopic structural and functional unit 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 cup-shaped structure called Bowman's capsule. The renal tubule extends from the capsule.

  5. Glomerular filtration rate - Wikipedia

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    A major measure of kidney function is the glomerular filtration rate (GFR). The glomerular filtration rate is the flow rate of filtered fluid through the kidney. The creatinine clearance rate (CCr or CrCl) is the volume of blood plasma that is cleared of creatinine per unit time and is a useful measure for approximating the GFR.

  6. Costa Chekrezi - Wikipedia

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    Chekrezi was born on 31 March 1892 in Ziçisht village, in the Upper Devoll region located near Korça (back then Ottoman Empire, now Albania). [1] He himself and his fathers family are of Circassian heritage which can be seen by his surname Çekrezi, which over time they became assimilated into Albanians.

  7. Podocyte - Wikipedia

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    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 capsule, the third layer through which filtration of blood takes place. [1] Bowman's capsule filters the blood, retaining large molecules such as proteins while smaller molecules ...

  8. Glomerulonephritis - Wikipedia

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    A glomerulus, a functional unit that represents the first step in the filtration of blood and generation of urine. Glomerulonephritis refers to an inflammation of the glomerulus, which is the unit involved in filtration in the kidney. This inflammation typically results in one or both of the nephrotic or nephritic syndromes. [2]: 500.

  9. Glomerulus (olfaction) - Wikipedia

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    The glomerulus (pl.: glomeruli) is a spherical structure located in the olfactory bulb of the brain where synapses form between the terminals of the olfactory nerve and the dendrites of mitral, periglomerular and tufted cells. Each glomerulus is surrounded by a heterogeneous population of juxtaglomerular neurons (that include periglomerular ...