Water and small solutes are filtered under pressure out of the blood plasma into nephrons through the porous walls of _________, tufts of capillaries in the renal cortex.  

A.  Loops of Henle
B.  collecting ducts
C.  juxtaglomerular apparati
D.  vasa rectae
E.  glomeruli


E.  glomeruli

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