Labelled Diagram Of A Nephron kidney The glomerulus l m r j l s l o plural glomeruli is a network of capillaries known as a tuft located at the beginning of a nephron in the kidney The tuft is structurally supported by intraglomerular mesangial cells The blood is filtered across the capillary walls of this tuft through the glomerular filtration barrier which yields its filtrate of water and Labelled Diagram Of A Nephron kidney is a bean shaped structure with a convex and a concave border A recessed area on the concave border is the renal hilum where the renal artery enters the kidney and the renal vein and ureter leave The kidney is surrounded by tough fibrous tissue the renal capsule which is itself surrounded by perirenal fat renal fascia and pararenal fat siumed edu dking2 crr rnguide htmBowman s space and Bowman s capsule Bowman s space also called the urinary space is the space within Bowman s capsule surrounding the loops and lobules of the glomer...