Handbook of Physiology: Section 8
Subtitle: Renal Physiology Volumes I and II (Handbook of Physiology Revised Edition)
Publisher: An American Physiological Society Book
Published: April 2, 1992
Language: eng
Number of pages: 2538
ISBN-13: 9780195060065
First sentence: THE GLOMERULUS is responsible for ultrafiltration, an obligatory biological process by which it converts approximately one-third of all the plasma flowing through it into a virtually protein-free filtrate.