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URINARY SYSTEM (KIDNEY MICROSCOPIC ANATOMY (NEPHRON (RENAL TUBULE…

- - - - GLOMERULUS
        
        GROUP OF CAPILLARIES
      - FOUND ONLY IN CORTEX
      - WHERE FILTRATE FORMS
    - - PROXIMAL CONVOLUTED TUBULE
        
        IN CORTEX
        
        PROXIMAL TO GLOMERULUS
      - NEPHRON LOOP
        
        IN MEDULLA
      - DISTAL CONVOLUTED TUBULE
        
        IN CORTEX
        
        JUST BEFORE THE COLLECTING DUCTS
      - COLLECTING DUCT
        
        FINAL SECTION OF THE NEPHRON
        
        AREA WHERE WATER CAN STILL BE REABSORBED INDER THE INFLUENCE OF ANTIDIURETIC HORMONE (VASOPRESSIN)
- - - - CONTAINS RENAL CORPUSCLES
    - - PYRAMIDS: COLLECTIONS OF TUBULES
    - - SUPERIOR PORTION OF URETER; COLLECTS URINE FROM CALICES
    - - BRANCH FROM RENAL PELVIS AND COLLECT URINE FROM THE MINOR CALICES
    - - COLLECT URINE FROM TUBULES