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kidney interstitium

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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://orcid.org/0000-0002-6601-2165 https://doi.org/10.1038/ki.1991.49 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18575881 ]

Term info

Label

kidney interstitium

Synonyms
  • interstitial tissue of kidney
  • renal interstitial tissue
  • renal interstitium
  • renal stroma
  • stroma of kidney
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Subsets

pheno_slim

editor note

See https://sourceforge.net/p/geneontology/ontology-requests/10941/

function notes

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.

has related synonym

kidney interstitium group

id

UBERON:0005215

structure notes

The fibroblasts in the interstitium provide the 'skeleton' of the tissue and maintain the three-dimensional architecture of the tissue.