Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 100, No. 7 (Apr. 1, 2003), pp. 4108-4113 (6 pages) Current interpretations of kidney function in terms of a coarse ...

The nephrons are the structures of the kidney that filter the blood and reabsorb water and other molecules. Each nephron consists of a tubule and a glomerulus. The glomerular endothelial glycocalyx ...