Brush border
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A brush border is the microvillus-covered surface of simple cuboidal and simple columnar epithelium found in different parts of the body. Microvilli are approximately 100 nanometers in diameter and th
Duodenum with brush border of microvilli.
Distal convoluted tubule
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The distal convoluted tubule is a portion of kidney nephron between the loop of Henle and the collecting tubule.
Brush border
…the digested nutrients. The kidney: Here the brush border is useful in distinguishing the proximal tubule (which possesses the brush border) from the distal convoluted tubule (which does not). The large intestine also has microvilli on the surface of its enterocytes…
1 Glomerulus, 2 proximal tubule, 3 distal tubule