The kidney is a central organ of the ... that will give rise to distal segments of the nephron. BRN1 commits cells to becoming cells of the Henle's loop and distal tubules. Irx genes, possibly ...

ClCKA is important for maintenance of the corticomedullary osmotic gradient and the ... limb of the loop of Henle; ClC-K2 is more broadly expressed along the distal nephron ClC-K1 is upregulated ...

Thus, the two types of kidney - opisthonephric and metanephric - can be distinguished ... Only groups which produce concentrated urine (birds and mammals) have the loop of Henle, formed from a very ...

Blood is transported to the kidney through the renal artery ... reabsorption comes from the solution passing along the loop of Henle from the Bowman’s capsule. Here water and salts needed ...