kidney interstitium
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0005215
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. [ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18575881 http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6601-2165 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ki.1991.49 ]
Synonyms: renal stroma, renal interstitial tissue, renal interstitium, interstitial tissue of kidney, stroma of kidney
Term info
- SCTID:362210003
- EMAPA:28518
- MA:0002616
- FMA:70983
- NCIT:C33459
pheno_slim, human_reference_atlas
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.
The fibroblasts in the interstitium provide the 'skeleton' of the tissue and maintain the three-dimensional architecture of the tissue.
See https://sourceforge.net/p/geneontology/ontology-requests/10941/
kidney interstitium group
uberon
UBERON:0005215
Stroma of kidney
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_9606
Term relations
- interstitial tissue
- anatomical entity
- contributes to morphology of some kidney
- composed primarily of some kidney interstitial fibroblast
- part of some kidney