Kidney Histology - The Glomerulus - Another One Bites the Tuft

The glomerulus is the first part of the nephron where blood passes through leaky capillaries at high pressure to form an ultrafiltrate. The arrangement of the cells that allows this process can be tricky to unravel using histology, but it is possible to identify the three cell types: endothelial cells, mesangial cells and podocytes. This video reviews the structure of a glomerulus before showing how you can identify the different cell types using a microscope.

This is part one of a multi-part series on the histology of the kidney so look out for more!

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Chapters

00:00 - The theory of glomerulus structure
01:00 - Low power - Finding glomeruli
01:21 - Medium power - The basic structure
02:09 - High power - Identifying cell types
03:53 - High power - Another glomerulus
04:58 - The vascular and urinary poles