From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. In the kidney, the loop of Henle (or Henle's loop, nephron loop or its Latin counterpart ansa nephroni) is the portion of a nephron that leads from the proximal convoluted tubule to the distal convoluted tubule.
Scott Air Force Base (IATA: BLV, ICAO: KBLV, FAALID: BLV) is a United States Air Forcebase in St. Clair County, Illinois, near Belleville and O'Fallon. Scott Field was one of thirty-two Air Service training camps established after the United States entered World War I in April 1917.
The U.S. Transportation Command Directorate of Acquisition, Scott Air Force Base, Illinois, is the contracting activity. 1  The mission of the Department of Defense is to provide the military forces needed to deter war and to protect the security of our country. The department's headquarters is at the Pentagon.