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The Kidneys

Dr. Matt and Dr. Mike's Medical Podcast

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The Role of the Nephron in Blood Filtration

No gas exchange, because otherwise on the other end of this capillary bed would have a venule. But we have an arterial. So we still have, and you know, a similar concentration of oxygen and carbon dioxide at the afferent arterial compared to the efferent on the other side of the capillary bed. Yeah. It's primarily function here at the capillaryBed is purely just to get all that fluid of your blood out, which is the plasma,. essentially. It's the side of filtration. And so I think just, I know we're going to focus on this in another podcast when we look at the nephron and glomerular filt

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