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mesangium
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http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0002319
inner layer of the glomerulus, within the basement membrane surrounding the glomerular capillaries. [ http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=76834&atid=974957 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesangium ]
Term info
Label
mesangium
Subsets
uberon_slim, pheno_slim
external ontology notes
WP considers this the same as glomerular mesangium. In MA, glomerular and extraglomerular are distingsuished. FMA class has no definition and is a type of stroma, which is inconsistent with our classification of this here.
has obo namespace
uberon
has relational adjective
mesangial
id
UBERON:0002319
Term relations
Subclass of:
- material entity
- cell layer
- mesoderm-derived structure
- part of some kidney interstitium
- part of some renal glomerulus
- located in some glomerular basement membrane