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.
One on the left and one on the right. Their role is to filter the blood through the glomerulus to form what is known as the filtrate. This filtrate is then on the whole reabsorbed along the nephron until what is left comprises compounds superfluous to the requirements of the organism.