Sentence examples for nephrons from inspiring English sources

The result is yet fewer nephrons, so that each has to work harder still.

Nephrons control blood pressure, so the result is hypertension.

According to Barry Brenner, of Brigham and Women's Hospital, in Boston, Massachusetts, the kidneys of growth-restricted fetuses have fewer nephrons (the urine-forming elements) than those of normal fetuses.

Nephrons are numerous (20,000 in a mouse).

Reptiles have relatively few nephrons (from 3,000 to 30,000 in lizards), while birds have a great number (around 200,000 in a fowl, twice as many as in a mammal of comparable size).

Each kidney contains 1,000,000 1,250,000 nephrons that filter the entire five-quart water content of the blood every 45 minutes an equivalent of 160 quarts a day.

This saves resources, but means that each nephron has to work harder, which in turn means that they wear out and die faster.

Abscesses may form in the kidney tissue, and some of the nephron tubules (urine-producing structures) may be destroyed.

The functional unit of the kidney is the nephron.

Each nephron is a tubular structure consisting of four regions.

Cells of the nephron tubule may secrete nitrogenous wastes into the urine and reabsorb water and nutrients.