TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Regulation of Renal Function and Vascular Volume A1 - Hilal-Dandan, Randa A1 - Brunton, Laurence L. Y1 - 2016 N1 - T2 - Goodman and Gilman's Manual of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, 2e AB - The basic urine-forming unit of the kidney is the nephron, which consists of a filtering apparatus, the glomerulus, connected to a long tubular portion that reabsorbs and conditions the glomerular ultrafiltrate. Each human kidney is composed of ~1 million nephrons. Figure 25–1 illustrates subdivisions of the nephron. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/04/19 UR - accessbiomedicalscience.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1127550031 ER -