afferent
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It constricts the afferent arterioles, causing the flow of blood into the nephrons to stop.
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About 90 percent of the afferent neurons carry information from inner hair cells, with each hair cell synapsing with 10 or so neurons.
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The branch that enters the glomerulus is called the afferent arteriole.
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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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Those filaments or cords are the nerves, which you know are divided into two kinds, sensor and motor, or, if you like the terms better, afferent and efferent nerves.
From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by John Tyndall