Nephron is the tubular structure in the kidney. This is the structure which carries out the filtration of our blood and ultimately results in two things
Filtered blood
Urine
Thr urine that comes out of the plevic region is composed largely of water, salts, and molecule known as urea (nitrogen waste).
The process of filtration, known as ultra filtration, filtration of molecules, starts in the bowman's capsule.
FIltration of blood begins when the blood arrives in the kidney, in the nephron, in the vessel known as the aferet arteriole. The blood here is under high pressure
The blood vessel coming out of the bowman's capsule is known as the efferent arteriole. The diameter of this blood vessel is much smaller than the afferent arteriole.
The blood develops a high pressure as it flows from a wide blood vessel (afferent arteriole) to a narrow blood vessel (efferent arteriole), the blood pressure increasing in the glomerulis.
The high pressure forces the liquid within the blood (plasma) and is forced into the space within the insidde of the bowman's capsule.
The plasma then becomes known as the glumerula filtrate.
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