afferent

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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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They constrict the afferent arterioles, causing the flow of blood into the nephrons to stop.

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

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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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To illustrate Kidney structure.-- a.b.v., and e.b.v., afferent and efferent blood-vessels, of which the latter go to break up upon the tubli.

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