PHOTO 8 - Diagram
Diagram showing a short looped- and a long looped-nephron as well as the location of the different nephron segments in the four renal zones. The respective height of the different renal zones has been altered. The cortex has been lenghtened and the inner medulla contracted.
W. Kriz and L. Bankir.
Simultaneously published in
Am. J. Physiol. 254:F1-F7, 1988;
Kidney Int. 33:1-7, 1988,
and several other journals and books