Chiropractic is a health care profession that focuses on the relationship between the body's structureâmainly the spineâand its functioning.
The nephron, the functional unit of the kidney, is responsible for removing waste from the body. Each kidney is composed of over one million nephrons that dot the renal cortex, giving it a granular appearance when sectioned sagittally (from front to rear).
The functional unit of the kidney is the nephron. Each adult kidney contains around 1â1.5 million nephrons. The basic structure of the nephron is shown in Figure 1. There are two types of nephron, the cortical and the juxtamedullary.he loop of Henle. The loop of Henle is the portion of the kidney that creates the conditions by which the kidney can form concentrated urine (i.e. urine with an osmolality greater than plasma) later on in the nephron.