renal glomerulus

UBERON:0000074 · glomerular capillary tuft, glomerular tuft, glomerulus, glomerulus renis, Malphigian glomerulus

Capillary tuft performing the filtration step; its performance is what eGFR estimates.

Where it sits

• part of kidney

What it does, and what normal looks like

• Filtering the blood

Markers that report on it

• Creatinine cleared by main
  The kidneys clear creatinine by filtering it, and that filtering is done mainly by the glomeruli.
• Estimated glomerular filtration rate cleared by main
  eGFR estimates how well the glomeruli, the kidney's tiny filters, clean the blood.
• Albumin cleared by
  Healthy glomeruli keep albumin in the blood, but inflamed glomeruli let it leak into the urine, lowering blood albumin.