Kidney

...e . The next portion of the tubule is the loop of henle , which leads to the distal convoluted tubule . The loop of henle was named after Friedrich Gustav Jakob henle who described it in the early 1860s. The loop of...

Louis Pasteur

... theory of spontaneous generation and supported germ theory. While Louis Pasteur did not develop germ theory ( Girolamo Fracastoro , Friedrich henle and others had suggested it earlier), he conducted experiments that clearly indicated its correctness and managed to convince most of Europe that i...

Nephron

... of four sections: the proximal tubule , loop of henle , distal tubule , and collecting duct . The col...an's capsule 2 Proximal tubule 3 Loop of henle 4 Distal tubule 5 Collecting duct 6... original water content and volume. Loop of henle The loop of...

Osmoregulation

...us into Bowman's capsule or glomerular capsule (in the kidney's cortex) and flows down the proximal convoluted tubule to a "u-turn" called the Loop of henle (loop of the nephron) in the medulla portion of the kidney. reabsorption - most of the viscous glomerular filtrate is returned to blood vessels whic...

Robert Koch

...of the founders of bacteriology . Robert Koch was born in Clausthal , Germany as the son of a mining official. He studied medicine under Jacob henle at the University of Gttingen and graduated in 1866. He then served in the Franco-Prussian War and later became district medical officer in Wol...

Henle in Biological Dictionary

Loop of Henle

In the kidney, the loop of Henle is the portion of the nephron that leads from the proximal convoluted tubule to the distal convoluted tubule. The loop has a hairpin bend in the renal medulla. The main function of this structure is to create a concentration gradient in... Lo...

Collecting tubules

... MG: Bicarbonate absorption by rabbit cortical collecting tubules in vitro. ... Therefore, the medulla consists of portions of the loops of henle and the collecting tubules . ... Collecting tubules are not considered part of the nephron; ... ... of ammonia were examined in rabbit corti...