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Digestive & Urinary System Natalia Gomez Period:5 - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Glomerulus
      - – Tuft of capillaries composed of fenestrated endothelium
      - Highly porous capillaries
      - Allows for efficient filtrate formation
      - – Filtrate: plasma-derived fluid that renal tubules process to form urine
      - Glomerular capsule
      - – Also called Bowman’s capsule: cup-shaped, hollow structure surrounding
      - glomerulus
      - – Consists of two layers
      - Parietal layer: simple squamous epithelium
      - Visceral layer: clings to glomerular capillaries; branching epithelial
      - – Extensions terminate in foot processes that cling to basement
      - membrane
      - – Filtration slits between foot processes allow filtrate to pass into
      - capsular space