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renal glomerulus

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A capillary tuft which forms a close network with the visceral epithelium (podocytes) and the mesangium to form the filtration barrier and is surrounded by Bowman's capsule in nephrons of the vertebrate kidney[GO]. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glomerulus ]

Term info

Label

renal glomerulus

Synonyms
  • renal glomeruli
database cross reference
Subsets

efo_slim, pheno_slim, vertebrate_core

created by

Melissa Haendel

creation date

2009-06-18T09:26:37Z

depicted by

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/Renal_corpuscle.svg, http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/30/Gray1130.svg

external ontology notes

ZFA - The multi-tissue structure where the glomerular basement membrane supported by mesonephric podocytes filters blood from the glomerular capillaries. GUDMAP: 'Together, the Bowman's capsule and the glomerulus comprise the definitive renal corpuscle.' - here the glomerulus is part of the capsule?

has broad synonym

glomerulus

has related synonym

glomerulus renis, glomerular capillary tuft, Malphigian glomerulus, glomerular tuft, renal corpuscle, Malpighian glomerulus, Malpighian tuft

id

UBERON:0000074