| The nephrons separate waste matter from plasma, the liquid part of your blood. |
| Hyperfiltration in these nephrons results form elevations in the mean glomerular transcapillary hydraulic pressure gradient and plasma flow rate. |
| Kidney diseases usually damage the nephrons and cause them to lose their filtering capacity. |
| In birds, the process of urinary concentration involves dilution of glomerular filtrate by the reabsorption of sodium chloride in the thick ascending limb of looped nephrons. |
| Each kidney has about a million tiny blood-filtering units called nephrons. |
| Each kidney contains thousands of nephrons. |
