nephron in dogs
The basic functional unit of the kidney. its chief function is to regulate the concentration of water and soluble substances like sodium salts by filtering the blood, reabsorbing what is needed and excreting the rest as urine. A nephron eliminates wastes from the body, regulates blood volume and blood pressure, controls levels of electrolytes and metabolites, and regulates blood pH. Its functions are vital to life and are regulated by the endocrine system by hormones such as antidiuretic hormone, aldosterone, and parathyroid hormone.[WP]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.
What the nephron is
The basic functional unit of the kidney. its chief function is to regulate the concentration of water and soluble substances like sodium salts by filtering the blood, reabsorbing what is needed and excreting the rest as urine. A nephron eliminates wastes from the body, regulates blood volume and blood pressure, controls levels of electrolytes and metabolites, and regulates blood pH. Its functions are vital to life and are regulated by the endocrine system by hormones such as antidiuretic hormone, aldosterone, and parathyroid hormone.[WP]. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the dog.
Where the nephron is
It sits in the abdomen and trunk, within the urinary system. Only the region is known. The position shown is somewhere plausible inside it and nothing more.
What the nephron connects to
The atlas records 27 typed relationships for it, across 6 kinds of connection. part of kidney, organ and renal system, and 1 more.
Supply and innervation
Arterial supply: renal afferent arteriole.
Also called
Also recorded as mature nephron, nephroneum and tubulus renalis. Searching any of those names reaches this page.
Source
Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001285, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.
- Part of: kidney, organ, renal system and renal lobule.
- A kind of: anatomical structure, epithelium and kidney epithelium.
- contains: collecting duct of renal tubule, glomerular epithelium, kidney collecting duct epithelium, macula densa, nephron tubule and nephron tubule epithelium, and 3 more.
- Develops from: abdomen, abdominal segment of trunk, kidney, multicellular organism, renal system and trunk, and 1 more.
- contributes to morphology of: kidney, nephron tubule and renal corpuscle.
- Supplied by: renal afferent arteriole.
Questions
Where is the nephron?
It sits in the abdomen and trunk, within the urinary system. Only the region is known. The position shown is somewhere plausible inside it and nothing more.
What does the nephron connect to?
Part of: kidney, organ, renal system and renal lobule.
Is the nephron the same in other species?
This page describes the dog. The human record of the same structure sits beside it on /compare, over one shared model rather than two atlases built separately.