Terms Related to Lower Nephron Nephrosis

• Crush Syndrome

  Severe systemic manifestation of trauma and ischemia involving soft tissues, principally skeletal muscle, due to prolonged severe crushing. It leads to increased permeability of the …

• Kallikrein-Kinin Systems

  A system produced in the distal nephron of the kidney. Its components are kallikrein, kinins, kininase I and II, and enkephalinase. It is involved in …

• Nephron

  The functional units of the kidney, consisting of the glomerulus and the attached tubule.

• Nephrosis

  Descriptive histopathologic term for renal disease without an inflammatory component.

• Hepatorenal Syndrome

  Renal failure in those with liver disease, usually liver cirrhosis or obstructive jaundice. Historically called Heyd disease, urohepatic syndrome, or bile nephrosis.

• Loop of Henle

  The U-shaped portion of the NEPHRON consisting of a descending limb and an ascending limb situated between the KIDNEY TUBULES, PROXIMAL and the KIDNEY TUBULES, …