They absorb solutes and water from the tubule cells after these substances are reabsorbed from the filtrate. The vasa recta arise from the efferent arterioles draining the juxtamedullary glomeruli. (vas= vessa; recta = straight) The vasa recta are part of the kidney's urine-concentrating mechanism.
Other Mexican-American authors of this era do not really fit under the label of Chicano literature. Rolando Hinojosa Smith (Mercedes, Texas, 1929) is an experimental writer whose work has been compared to William Faulknerâs. In 1976 he won the prestigious Casa de las Americas AmÃ©ricas prize for his Novel Klail. city
Known as El Chapo (Shorty, pronounced [el ËtÊapo]) for his 168 cm (5 ft 6 in) stature), he became Mexico's top drug kingpin in 2003 after the arrest of his rival Osiel CÃ¡rdenas GuillÃ©n of the Gulf Cartel, and was considered the most powerful drug trafficker in the world by the United States Department of the Treasury.