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Loop of Henle
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Loop of Henle
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
. Named after its discoverer, the
German
anatomist
Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle
, the loop of Henle's main function is to create a
concentration gradient
in the
medulla
of the kidney.
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