2.73 Glucose reabsorption

2.73 Understand that selective reabsorbtion of glucose occurs at the proximal convoluted tubule (PCT)

- Selective reabsorbtion means that a molecule is selected to be reabsorbed. This means it will go from the glomerule filtrate and back into the blood. This may seem strange because it has been removed from the blood and now going to be put back into the blood.

- The glucose is removed before the end of the Nephron Tubule because no glucose is found in the Urine (unless you are diabetic). So normally there would be no glucose in the urine. So the glucose has to be returned to the blood stream between the Bowman's capsule (where it is present in the plasma which become the glomerule filtrate) and the pelvic region.

- The answer is that the glucose re-enters the bloodstream at the proximal convuluted tubule which is the section just before the Loop of Henle.