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OCR: LOOPED PART OF THE NEPHR ON HE LOOPED PART of the nephron lies in the inner section of the kidney called the medulla. Its main function to reabsorb water and salt from the fluid that has been filtered out of the blood in the capillary knot Although the kidneys filter about 180 liters (47 gallons of fluid from the blood every day, only approxim ately 1.5 liters (3 pints) of this is excreted as urine The looped part the nephron reabsorbs 20 percent the filtered fluid back into the blood consta constant rate