21. :No, a nephron is an assembly of many hundreds or thousands of cells. 22. He plunged the tip of that device into a nephron and sampled tiny volumes of fluid. 23. The majority of nephrons are cortical. 24. Partial nephrectomy ( also referred to as " nephron sparing surgery " ) can be performed. 25. Nephron loss secondary to ischemic injury also contributes to the development of azotemia in these patients.26. Organogenesis " and is on the editorial boards of Journal of Anatomy, and Nephron . 27. In these fish, the entire nephron regenerates following injury or partial removal of the kidney. 28. The sodium / phosphate cotransporter is a protein found in the proximal tubule of the nephron . 29. ADH causes a reabsorption of water from the lumen of the nephron to the extracellular fluid osmotically. 30. Urinalysis may indicate an elevated pH due to the secondary destruction of nephrons within the affected kidney.