afferent

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The branch that enters the glomerulus is called the afferent arteriole.

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For example, the DCT ascending limb of the loop of Henle has masses of cells called macula densa, which are in contact with cells of the afferent arterioles called juxtaglomerular cells.

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Thus, action potentials transmitted over a sensory receptor’s afferent axons encode one type of stimulus, and this segregation of the senses is preserved in other sensory circuits.

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These again split to form arcuate arteries, from which cortical radiate arteries radiate out and branch into many afferent arterioles that enter the capillaries supplying the nephrons.

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A vast amount of our activities are reflex, and in such action an efferent stimulus follows an afferent promptly and quite mechanically.

From Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)