Header Logo

Glomerular Filtration Rate

"Glomerular Filtration Rate" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

expand / collapse MeSH information
The volume of water filtered out of plasma through glomerular capillary walls into Bowman's capsules per unit of time. It is considered to be equivalent to INULIN clearance.


expand / collapse publications
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Glomerular Filtration Rate" by people in this website by year, and whether "Glomerular Filtration Rate" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 76 publications over 24 distinct years, with a maximum of 8 publications in 2018
To see the data from this visualization as text, click here.