ILOs:
- Understand the organisation of the renal corpuscle and the cells present within it.
- Describe the filtration barrier between blood and urine in the renal corpuscle.
- Describe the histology of the parts of the nephron and relate their specialisations to their functions
Part 1: The renal corpuscle
- Histological image that were going to talk through:)
- What makes up the capsule
- what surrounds the capsule in the kidney
- what are the two zones in the kidney parenchyma
- what does the renal cortex contain
- what does the medulla contain
- how many pyramids are found in the kidney
- what separates these pyramids
- What is the order or drainage
- what is the renal hilum and what does it contain
- what is more anterior the renal vein or renal arteries
- low power image of the kidney
- High power image of the cortex
- what is the renal corpusle