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podocyte

^ http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/CL_0000653

A specialized kidney epithelial cell, contained within a glomerulus, that contains "feet" that interdigitate with the "feet" of other podocytes. [ GOC:tfm https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.10.10.463829 ]

Synonyms: kidney podocyte, renal podocyte, glomerular visceral epithelial cell, glomerular podocyte

Term info

database cross reference
  • BTO:0002295
  • FMA:70967
Subsets

human_reference_atlas

contributor

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1773-2692

has broad synonym

epithelial cell of visceral layer of glomerular capsule

prefLabel

Epithelial cell of visceral layer of glomerular capsule

present in taxon

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_9606

see also

https://github.com/obophenotype/cell-ontology/issues/1460