| The nephrons separate waste matter from plasma, the liquid part of your blood. |
| Mesangial hypercellularity and a collapse of the vascular structure servicing the nephrons are observed. |
| Kidney diseases usually damage the nephrons and cause them to lose their filtering capacity. |
| Each kidney has about a million tiny blood-filtering units called nephrons. |
| Stones may form in the kidneys, blocking blood from passing through the nephrons and tubules to be filtered. |
| 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. |
