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Why do you find glucose in the filtrate but not formed elements of the blood (erythrocytes, leukocytes, and platelets)?​
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Why do you find glucose in the filtrate but not formed elements of the blood (erythrocytes, leukocytes, and

platelets)?​

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Formed elements of the blood are too large to fit through the filtration slits of the filtration membrane. ... Nephron tubules cannot reabsorb large proteins and cells that enter the filtrate.

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