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macula densa

^ http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0002335


The macula densa is an area of specialized cells in the distal tubule that makes contact with the vascular pole of the glomerulus[GO]. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macula_densa http://amigo.geneontology.org/amigo/term/GO:0072024 ]

Term info

database cross reference
Subsets

uberon_slim, pheno_slim, human_reference_atlas

UBPROP 0000012

not part of a nephron or distal tubule in MA and FMA

id

UBERON:0002335

prefLabel

Macula densa

present in taxon

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