loading...| Preferred Name |
kidney interstitium |
| Synonyms |
renal stroma renal interstitium interstitial tissue of kidney kidney interstitium group renal interstitial tissue stroma of kidney |
| Definitions |
The interstitial compartment of the kidney, comprising the extravascular intertubular spaces of the renal parenchyma, with their attendant cellular elements and extracellular substances, bounded on all sides by epithelial and vascular basement membranes. |
| ID |
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0005215 |
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| contributes to morphology of | |
| database_cross_reference |
MA:0002616 NCIT:C33459 SCTID:362210003 FMA:70983 EMAPA:28518 |
| definition |
The interstitial compartment of the kidney, comprising the extravascular intertubular spaces of the renal parenchyma, with their attendant cellular elements and extracellular substances, bounded on all sides by epithelial and vascular basement membranes. |
| editor note |
See https://sourceforge.net/p/geneontology/ontology-requests/10941/ |
| has_exact_synonym |
renal stroma renal interstitium interstitial tissue of kidney renal interstitial tissue stroma of kidney |
| has_obo_namespace |
uberon |
| has_related_synonym |
kidney interstitium group |
| id |
UBERON:0005215 |
| in_subset |
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/uberon/core#human_reference_atlas |
| label |
kidney interstitium |
| notation |
UBERON:0005215 |
| part_of | |
| prefLabel |
kidney interstitium |
| present_in_taxon | |
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| UBPROP_0000009 |
The interstitium is necessarily involved in all intrarenal exchange processes since the reabsorption and secretion of fluid and solutes implicates a transit across the interstitial compartment. |
| UBPROP_0000010 |
The fibroblasts in the interstitium provide the 'skeleton' of the tissue and maintain the three-dimensional architecture of the tissue. |
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