Asterix (character) Asterix (French: AstÃ©rix) is a fictional character the titular hero of the French comic book series The Adventures of Asterix. The series portrays him as a diminutive but fearless Gaulish warrior living in the time of Julius Caesar's Gallic Wars.
Basically, a nephron comprises a renal tubule and blood vessels. The renal tubule expands into a cup-shaped structure called the Bowman's Capsule, which contains a ball of capillaries known as the Glomerulus. The Glomerulus is the primary structure of the filtering process.
  Within the nephron (the functional unit of the kidneys), filtration occurs in the glomerolus. The filtered fluid is called filtrate. Reabsorption of filtrate occurs in a â¦ few places within the nephron, however, the majority of reabsorption takes place in the proximal convoluted tube.eabsorption in a nephron occurs in the Loop of Henle Reabsorption has been addressed to substances which are absorbed back from the nerphrone back in to the blood(capillaries â¦).