How Does the Kidney Filter Plasma?
- 1 April 2005
- journal article
- review article
- Published by American Physiological Society in Physiology
- Vol. 20 (2) , 96-101
- https://doi.org/10.1152/physiol.00045.2004
Abstract
The kidneys filter the plasma in special filtration units-glomeruli-and thereby excrete low-molecular-weight waste products into the urine. The mechanisms of glomerular filtration have been a matter of controversy for several decades, but recent data have revealed new details about the molecular nature of the filter and have demonstrated a central role for the podocyte slit diaphragm in the filtration process.Keywords
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